NCT05310526

BALANCE Diet Implementation in Primary Health Care: a Cluster Randomized Type II Hybrid Implementation Study

Implementation of the Brazilian Cardioprotective Diet in Primary Health Care: a Cluster Randomized Type II Hybrid Implementation Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 786 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospital do Coracao · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is an implementation type II hybrid study with randomisation in cluster, whose objective is to compare two strategies of implementation of the Brazilian cardioprotective diet guidelines in primary health care in two Brazilian cities. All health professionals from the health units (clusters) randomized to the intervention group will receive training on the subject. The health professionals from the health units randomized to the control group will follow the usual activities, receiving only the printed guidelines, as usually done. After 6 months, the prescription rate of the Brazilian cardioprotective diet will be evaluated, as well as the quality of the diet of patients in both groups.

Conditions

• Obesity
• Hypertension
• Diabetes
• Dyslipidemias

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Training Group	Training for prescribing the Brazilian cardioprotective diet

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-11-01
• Primary completion: 2023-11-30
• Completion: 2023-12-19
• First posted: 2022-04-05
• Last updated: 2023-12-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil