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The study will support implementation of a health promotive work-way in primary care setting by using external and internal facilitators, with the aim to identify effective implementation strategies and to evaluate intervention uptake. Data will be collected from multiple perspecitves.
Insufficient physical activity, hazardous use of alcohol, tobacco use and unhealthy eating habits increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases, cancer and type 2-diabetes. Health-promoting work reduces the disease risk and mortality and should thus be integrated in clinical care processes.
Despite support by the National guideline for prevention and treatment of unhealthy life-style habits, there is a chasm to bridge when integrating evidence into clinical practise. Prerequisites for changing work-ways are often underestimated and left to the individual co-workers to full fill on their own.
Too few patients are asked about life-style habits and too few receive evidence-based measures. The measures taken may also depend on sex, language, residence and caregiver's profession. The investigators strive to support the implementation of a health-promoting way of working that includes self-reporting of life-style habits before a visit and that takes measures for those with at least one unhealthy lifestyle habit.
The aim is to identify effective implementation strategies for health-promoting efforts in the primary care. The perceptions of barriers and opportunities when changing way of working from the target groups (leaders, co-workers, patients) will be used to enhance the possibility of successful implementation. Strategies are enhanced by theories of leading change. External and internal facilitators support the implementation.
The study will evaluate the effects and the implementation process at the level of leaders, patients, co-workers, facilitators and organisation in short (4-6 months) and long term (16-18 months).
The project provides generalizable knowledge on strategies to overcome the gap between evidence and praxis, contributing to utilize an existing synthesized knowledgebase regarding health-promoting and preventative workways in a Swedish primary care setting.
It is central for the health care system to identify successful implementation strategies in order to manage their future mission.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
|---|---|---|---|
| health promotive work-way | Experimental | Six primary care units that voluntarily enrolls as experimental units. The units will receive implementation support based on previous research and tailored to the specific prerequisits and context for each unit. Strategies includes involvement of target groups; informationa and interactive education;use of external and internal facilitators tarined for the purpose; systematic feedback and learning dialogs during the project. The implementation support will take approximately 12 months. |
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| Control | No Intervention | Six primary care centers of similar size and socioeconomic background in the population listed to each center. |
| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| health promotive work-way | Behavioral | Clinical intervention: The patient is asked to fill in a screening form with life-style related questions. The caregiver takes adequate measures according to the recommendations of the national guideline and the filled in screeing form. The caregiver documents the measures taken. Implementation intervention as described previously: using tailored strategies to support implementation of the gudieline-based recommendations |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
|---|---|---|
| Change and trend from baseline documented codes in medical records | specific codes are used for measures related to the guideline recommendations for grade of advice for insufficient physical activity, unhealthy eating habits, hazardous use of alcohol and tobacco use and prescribed physical activity | Change from baseline (6 months), through study completion up to 6 months after end of implementation support |
| Change and trend from baseline documented codes in medical records | specific codes are used for measures related to the guideline recommendations for grade of advice for insufficient physical activity, unhealthy eating habits, hazardous use of alcohol and tobacco use and prescribed physical activity | Change from baseline (6 months), through study completion up to 18 months after end of implementation support |
| Change in S-NoMAD score (Swedish translation of NoMAD | 23-item questionnaire covering the constructs coherence, cognitive participation, collective action and reflexive monitoring | Change from baseline S-Nomad score up to 4 to 6 months after end of study completion |
| Change in S-NoMAD score (Swedish translation of NoMAD | 23-item questionnaire covering the constructs coherence, cognitive participation, collective action and reflexive monitoring | Change from baseline S-Nomad score up to 16 to 18 months after end of study completion |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
|---|---|---|
| Change in perceived clincial intervention by a study specific questionnaire | Questions related to the patients' perception on receiving the clinical intervention or not | Change from baseline up to 4 to 6 months after end of implementation support |
| Change in perceived appropriateness (AIM), feasability (FIM) and acceptability (IAM) of the clinical intevention. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
|---|---|---|
| Interviews to tailor strategies and evaluate implementation process | Semi-structured interview guides directed to facilitators, co-workers and managers | Interviews pre-intervention and up to 3 to 6 months after end of implementation support |
| Interviews to evaluate implementation support, clinical process and thoughts about up-scaling |
Inclusion Criteria for co-workers:
Inclusion criteria for patients filling in the study specific questionnaire:
Inclusion criteria for personcentered processmapping:
* : having one or more unhealthy life-style habit 18 years or older
Inclusion criterina for managers:
* being a manager at a primary care unit or at higher level
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Ylva Nilsagård | University Health Care Research Center, Region Örebro County | Study Director |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Region Örebro County | Örebro | 70185 | Sweden |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25791983 | Background | Moore GF, Audrey S, Barker M, Bond L, Bonell C, Hardeman W, Moore L, O'Cathain A, Tinati T, Wight D, Baird J. Process evaluation of complex interventions: Medical Research Council guidance. BMJ. 2015 Mar 19;350:h1258. doi: 10.1136/bmj.h1258. | |
| 29385438 | Background | Wandell PE, de Waard AM, Holzmann MJ, Gornitzki C, Lionis C, de Wit N, Sondergaard J, Sonderlund AL, Kral N, Seifert B, Korevaar JC, Schellevis FG, Carlsson AC. Barriers and facilitators among health professionals in primary care to prevention of cardiometabolic diseases: A systematic review. Fam Pract. 2018 Jul 23;35(4):383-398. doi: 10.1093/fampra/cmx137. |
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We don't collect individual data other than in the qualitative parts and we don't have ethical approval to share that
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| Type | Includes Protocol | Includes SAP | Includes ICF | Document Label | Document Date | Document Uploaded Date | Document File Name |
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| Prot_SAP | Yes | Yes | No | Study Protocol and Statistical Analysis Plan | Dec 9, 2025 | Dec 9, 2025 | Prot_SAP_000.pdf |
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| D001519 | Behavior |
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A pre-post-intervention design with control group will be used to evaluate intervention uptake and implementation process effectiveness from the perspective of managers, primary care professionals, patients, and organisation. Primary care settings in central Sweden will be supported in implementing a guideline-based health-promoting way of working including screening of life-style habits, measures taken according to evidence based recommendations and documentation. Strategies will include interactive education sessions, external and internal facilitators, audit and feedback, and tools from theories of leading change; tailored according to contextual and participant needs.
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Appropriateness, feasability, acceptability of the clinical intervention is rated on a 5-graded scale with 4 items per construct |
| Change from baseline in AIM,IAM and FIM up to 4 to 6 months after end of implementation support |
| Change in perceived appropriateness (AIM), feasability (FIM) and acceptability (IAM) of the clinical intevention. | Appropriateness, feasability, acceptability of the clinical intervention is rated on a 5-graded scale with 4 items per construct | Change from baseline in AIM,IAM and FIM up to 16 to18 months after end of implementation support |
Semi-structured interview guides directed to facilitators, co-workers and managers |
| Interviews pre-intervention and up to 16 to18 months after end of implementation support |
| Person centered processmapping | Structured workshop with patient representatives | At baseline |
| Study specific logbook | To measure fidelity, dose and reach and changes at the unit that may affect the implementation process | Through study completion, in average 16 months |
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