Effectiveness of the nurse-led Activate intervention in patients at risk of cardiovascular disease in primary care: a cluster-randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To understand better the success of self-management interventions and to enable tailoring of such interventions at specific subgroups of patients, the nurse-led Activate intervention is developed targeting one component of self-management (physical activity) in a heterogeneous subgroup (patients at risk of cardiovascular disease) in Dutch primary care.

Aim

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Activate intervention and identifying which patient-related characteristics modify the effect.

Methods

A two-armed cluster-randomised controlled trial was conducted comparing the intervention with care as usual. The intervention consisted of four nurse-led behaviour change consultations within a 3-month period. Data were collected at baseline,

SUBMITTER: Westland H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7817988 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature