CompletedPhase 2/3

Programme to Optimise Risk Factors in Patients Waiting for Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

United Kingdom200 participantsStarted 2003-01

Plain-language summary

The time spent waiting for heart surgery can be extremely stressful. This programme aims to address this by providing a home-based, nurse-led support and education programme. Patients will be followed up in their own homes monthly by a cardiac nurse and given lifestyle advice and information to prepare them for surgery. This will be evaluated to test whether providing this support improves patients' anxiety and quality of life while they wait and also whether their blood pressure, weight and cholesterol are reduced and they have a smoother recovery as a consequence.

Who can participate

Age range0 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * Patients waiting for first time cardiac bypass surgery * Able to read and understand English Exclusion Criteria: * Patients living outside designated geographical area (\>1.5 hours drive from hospitals) * Patients having surgery other than first time coronary artery bypass grafts * Patients unable to read and understand English * Patients with life-threatening significant non-cardiovascular disease e.g. cancer * All risk factors under control (blood pressure \<140 systolic and/or \< 90 diastolic and/or serum cholesterol \<5 mmol/L and/or blood glucose \< 7mmol/L and anxiety score \< 8 on the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale).

What they're measuring

Anxiety

Length of hospital stay

Changes to blood pressure, smoking rate, serum cholesterol, body mass index and blood glucose from baseline

Trial details

NCT IDNCT00124371

SponsorRoyal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

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