Clinical trial NCT03276546: SHARE-D: a Decision Tool to Help Patients Make Informed Lifestyle Choices
Official title: SHARE-D: a Decision Tool to Help Patients With, or at Risk of, Coronary Heart Disease Make Informed Lifestyle Choices: Feasibility Study
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Health Behavior
Lead sponsor: Queen's University, Belfast
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Northern Ireland Chest Heart and Stroke
First posted: 2017-09-08
Enrollment: 23
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: More information is needed about effective ways to help people begin to change their lifestyle behaviours, particularly physical activity and diet. The investigators propose to test a 'tool' that can be used to guide discussions between people and health professionals about their physical activity and diet habits, so that people may be supported better in making decisions about why and how they might begin to fit more exercise and healthy food into their daily routines and make long-term changes. The investigators will explore the feasibility of using this tool in general practice, reviewing behaviours after 1 and 3 months. Patients' and healthcare professionals' views of its use and how it influenced decisions will inform development of the tool's design and a study of its effectiveness in helping people to begin to change their behaviour and achieve healthy lifestyles.

Detailed description: Healthier lifestyles, relating to physical activity and diet, reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke. However, making and sustaining lifestyle changes is difficult. More information is needed about effective ways to help people begin to change their lifestyle behaviours. The investigators propose to test the feasibility of using a 'tool' (the SHARED-D questionnaire) in guiding discussions between people and health professionals about physical activity and diet, and support people in making decisions about why and how they might begin to fit more exercise and healthy food into their daily routines. The 'tool' (SHARE-D) consists of questions to help people think about their personal circumstances and their motivation, opportunities, capabilities and priorities, and includes information about heart disease and stroke.

The investigators will explore the use of this tool in general practice, assessing patients' physical activity and diet behaviour after 1 and 3 months. Patients' and healthcare professionals' views of its use and how it influenced decisions will help to improve the tool's design. Participants' opinions regarding its format and method of delivery will inform future plans for its use and the design of a study of its effectiveness in helping people to begin to change their behaviour and achieve healthy lifestyles, hoping to lead to improved quality of life for people with heart disease and stroke.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Aged 18 years or over
* With or at high risk of coronary heart disease
* Overweight or physically inactive

Exclusion Criteria:

* Unable to complete questionnaires
* Unable to make independent changes to physical activity or diet habits

Primary outcomes:
measure: Recruitment Rate
timeFrame: 4 months overall recruitment (responses to invitations recorded within 4 weeks of invitation being sent)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Completion Rate
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: Diet Behaviour - Fibre Intake
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: Physical Activity Behaviour
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: Objective Measure of Physical Activity
timeFrame: 2 periods of 7-day measurement: baseline and after 3 months
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