Effectiveness of Counseling Interventions to Modify Risk Behaviors in Patients at the Hospital San Ignacio.

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• Last refreshed on: 25 March 2024
• Main ID: NCT03521622
• Date of registration: 30/04/2018
• Prospective Registration: No
• Primary sponsor: Hospital Universitario San Ignacio
• Public title: Effectiveness of Counseling Interventions to Modify Risk Behaviors in Patients at the Hospital San Ignacio. EFICO
• Scientific title: Effectiveness of Counseling Interventions to Modify the Stage of Behavioral Change in Risk Behaviors (Smoking and Risky Alcohol Consumption) of Patient's Candidates for Surgery at the Hospital San Ignacio. Bogotá-Colombia
• Date of first enrolment: April 15, 2018
• Target sample size: 440
• Recruitment status: Completed
• URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03521622
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Screening. Masking: Double (Participant, Outcomes Assessor).
• Phase: N/A

Countries of recruitment

Colombia

Contacts

• Name: Luz H Alba, MD
• Affiliation: Hospital San Ignacio

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- candidates for scheduled surgery with a hospital stay of 3 days or less (including
ambulatory surgeries) or who attend outpatient diagnostic procedures performed in
surgery rooms.

- Current smokers (any tobacco product in the last month and more than 100 cigarretes in
life) or risky alcohol drinkers (more than 4 or 5 alcohol standard drinks during the
last year and AUDIT score between 8-15 points)

- patients with contact information

- Patients that want to participate

Exclusion Criteria:

- People who are being treated for smoking cessation or decreased consumption of
alcohol.

- People with diseases that compromise their ability to understand information or their
ability to verbal communication

- Patients with dependence or abuse of alcohol or other psychoactive substances other
than tobacco

- Patients in action or maintenance stages of behavioral change against their risk
factor



Age minimum: 19 Years
Age maximum: 64 Years
Gender: All

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Risk Behavior

Intervention(s)

Behavioral: brief counseling

Primary Outcome(s)

the level of progress in the stage of behavioral change [Time Frame: one and three months after the intervention]

Secondary Outcome(s)

proportion of smokers and risky alcohol drinker [Time Frame: one and three months after the intervention]

Secondary ID(s)

2018/07

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors

Secondary Sponsor(s)

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana