A Patient-Spouse Intervention for Self-Managing High Cholesterol

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Conditions studied: Hypercholesterolemia

In brief

We examined the effect of a patient-spouse intervention to lower LDL-C by increasing patient treatment adherence. A randomized controlled trial compared a one-year, telephone-based patient-spouse intervention to usual care. The primary outcome was LDL-C measured three times (baseline, 6 months, 11 months); secondary outcomes were adherence to medication, diet, and exercise, also assessed at baseline, 6 months, and 11 months.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00321789

Run by

US Department of Veterans Affairs

People needed

255

Starts

2007-09-01

Expected to finish

2010-08-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-04-24

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• veteran
• elevated baseline low-density lipoprotein cholesterol level
• married

You may not qualify if…

• no telephone number;
• spouse unwilling to participate;
• patient or spouse cognitively impaired, unable to communicate via telephone, living in nursing home or receiving home health care, or refuses to provide informed consent;
• hospitalized past 3 months;
• survival prognosis less than 1 year;
• active psychosis or dementia; no primary care physician at VA;
• no medical visit to VA in past year;
• enrolled in another study focusing on lifestyle changes

Where it is running

• Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC — Durham, North Carolina, United States

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