Virtual Clinician Research Tool

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Conditions studied: Elevated Risk of Cardiovascular Disease, Tobacco Dependence

In brief

The Virtual Clinician Research Tool (VCRT) will use a virtual format to present our National Cholesterol Education Program (Brown, 2004) and the Tobacco Use and Dependence Treatment Clinical Guideline (Fiore et al., 2008) integrated with principles of human motivation from Self-Determination Theory (SDT) for patients with elevated risk for cardiovascular disease from LDL-cholesterol or tobacco dependence.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01408758

Run by

University of Rochester

People needed

79

Starts

2011-01-01

Expected to finish

2012-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-02-28

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Inclusion Criteria Tobacco Dependence: Subjects must be currently smoking at least 5 cigarettes per day in the past month, and have smoked 100 cigarettes in their lifetime to qualify for the tobacco VCRT; and will be eligible regardless of their desire to stop smoking.
• B. Inclusion Criteria Cholesterol. Subjects must have moderate or moderately high risk for coronary artery disease defined by NCEP (two or more of the following risk factors (male age > 45 years, female >55, HDL-C <40 mg/dl, active smoking, family history of CHD age < 55 years male or age < 65 years female) and the average of two LDL-cholesterols > 100 mg/dl, or the average of two non-HDL cholesterols of 130 mg/dl. Participants will be eligible regardless of desire to lower their cholesterol.

You may not qualify if…

• Exclusion Criteria Tobacco and Cholesterol: Participants will be excluded if they are pregnant or lactating, have a psychotic disorder, are unable to make decisions about medications for themselves, are too sick to participate, or have a life expectancy of less than 12 months (e.g., advanced cancer). Participants will be excluded from the tobacco portion of the trial if they have suicidal ideation (score of 1 or more on the suicidal thought or self harm question in the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) 9). Participants will be excluded from the cholesterol portion of the trial if they have had a heart attack or a stroke, if they have diabetes mellitus, aortic aneurysm, peripheral vascular disease, or chronic kidney disease. They will also be excluded if they are already taking a statin medication to lower their cholesterol. They will be excluded if they are unable to take any of the statin medications due to allergy or adverse reaction in the past (before the study starts). They will be excluded from both cholesterol and tobacco portions of study if they do not speak or write English. Participants will be excluded if they do not have access to a personal computer at home (Mac or PC) with broadband internet access (such as cable modem or digital subscriber line [DSL] and Firefox, Internet Explorer 7 (or higher), or Safari browser software.

Where it is running

• University of Rochester Medical Center Healthy Living Center — Rochester, New York, United States

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