A novel approach to clinical practice by using a shared decision-making model to target cardiovascular risk: The YANKEES study
| ISRCTN | ISRCTN61164781 |
|---|---|
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN61164781 |
| ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT) | Nil known |
| Clinical Trials Information System (CTIS) | Nil known |
| Protocol serial number | 18-020 |
| Sponsor | New York State Department of Health |
| Funder | New York State Department of Health |
- Submission date
- 21/05/2019
- Registration date
- 14/10/2019
- Last edited
- 15/07/2020
- Recruitment status
- No longer recruiting
- Overall study status
- Completed
- Condition category
- Circulatory System
Plain English summary of protocol
Background and study aims
The overall goal of the project is to decrease the cardiovascular risk among the patients of South Bronx population by utilizing a SDM intervention model to encourage health dietary choices, advocate exercise, educate, prompting patient decisions and directing self-efficacy to the healthier choices, to accomplish weight reduction (change in weight) and blood-pressure control (decrease and maintenance of healthy blood pressure).
Shared Decision Making combines subject preferences with evidence-based medicine in a collaborative conversation to help the person determine their optimal treatment approach. In SDM, both parties share information: the clinician offers options and describes their risks and benefits, and the patient expresses his or her preferences and values. Each participant is thus armed with a better understanding of the relevant factors and shares responsibility in the decision about how to proceed. This is a process of open communication or mutually acceptable decision. In this project, the research staff will offer to participant personalized information about treatment and prevention options and their associated risks and benefits. The participant then should communicate to the staff his or her values, preferences and concerns related to these variables. The goal is to arrive at a joint decision regarding the best strategy. Patients will be informed, more likely to comply with the plan and more likely to be satisfied with their outcome.
Who can participate?
Clinic patients aged over 18, who have had at least two appointments and follow-ups can take part.
What does the study involve?
This study will engage patients in implementing a Shared Decision-Making (SDM) model to enhance clinician and patient communication to achieve an informed decision on evidence-based practices. The SDM group will be allocated to Weight Management (BMI reduction) or Blood-Pressure Control (Systolic Reduction). SDM group will be compared to a control group which will be the Usual Decision Making (UDM), where individuals will utilize their own resourcefulness to achieve similar goals of weight and blood-pressure control.
The duration of the study is one-year and at Baseline (initial interaction), 3-months, 6-months, 9-months and 12-months subjects will be evaluated via outcome measurements listed.
What are the possible benefits and risks of participating?
Possible Benefits:
Benefits of SDM intervention are the interpersonal challenge of the patient to Think-Plan-Do. Activities that allow the mastery of self to achieve a healthier lifestyle practice that can be managed over time to reduce weight and manage blood pressure.
We cannot and do not guarantee that you will receive any other benefits from this study. However, we hope that the study populations of the participating health-center’s vicinity may benefit from the knowledge and information subjects in the SDM arm of the study gained during the intervention.
Some participants may:
· Change eating and exercise habits and may experience improvements in their general health as a result.
· Lose weight and may experience benefits associated with this weight loss.
· Participants will strengthen their medication/physician compliance.
· Improve their sleep hygiene.
· May cease or decrease their alcohol consumption and/or smoking.
The participants that experience these benefits will ultimately lead to an improvement in the participant’s health and behavior.
Possible Risks:
All collected information will be de-identified and maintained confidential in a secure network storage location, meeting or exceeding corporate requirements of with in HIPAA secure facility.
Some of the questions asked may be too personal and could cause embarrassment or stress the participant or enhance a sense of anxiety. Participants may skip questions that they do not wish to answer
Where is the study run from?
Lincoln Center for Clinical and Community Research, NY, USA.
When is the study starting and how long is it expected to run for?
June 2019 to June 2020
Who is funding the study?
New York State Department of Health, USA
Who is the main contact?
1. Dr Balavenkatesh Kanna,
Balavenkatesh.Kanna@nychhc.org
2. Dr Masood Shariff,
shariffm@nychhc.org
Contact information
Scientific
Lincoln Center for Clinical and Community Research
234 East 149th Street
Bronx
10451
United States of America
 ORCID ID |
0000-0002-0112-7869 |
|---|---|
| Phone | 718-579-6185 |
| Balavenkatesh.Kanna@nychhc.org |
Scientific
Lincoln Center for Clinical and Community Research
234 East 149th Street
Bronx
10451
United States of America
| ORCID ID |
0000-0003-4082-4066 |
|---|---|
| Phone | 718-579-5106 |
| shariffm@nychhc.org |
Study information
| Primary study design | Interventional |
|---|---|
| Study design | Prospective randomized controlled study |
| Secondary study design | Randomised controlled trial |
| Study type | Participant information sheet |
| Scientific title | A novel approach to clinical practice by using a shared decision-making model to target cardiovascular risk: The YANKEES (Your demographics, Adherence, Nutrition, Knowledge, Environment, E-EtOH [alcohol], Smoking, Sleep-quality) study |
| Study acronym | YANKEES |
| Study objectives | In our attempt to help reduce cardiovascular disease risk, the shared decision making (SDM) cohort will demonstrate superiority over usual decision making (UDM) cohort, by decreasing body mass index (BMI) in obese individuals by two units and decreasing systolic blood pressure (SBP) in hypertensive participants by at least 10 mmHg. |
| Ethics approval(s) | Approved 14/08/2018, Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center IRB (234 East 149th street, Bronx, NY 1045; 718-579-5339; lincolnirb@nychhc.org), ref: 18-020. |
| Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied | Obesity, Hypertension, Cardiovascular Disease |
| Intervention | Our project has two arms, the Shared Decisions Making (SDM) and Usual Decision Making (UDM). Shared Decision Making combines subject preferences with evidence-based medicine in a collaborative conversation to help the person determine their optimal treatment approach. In SDM, both parties share information: the clinician offers options and describes their risks and benefits, and the patient expresses his or her preferences and values. Each participant is thus armed with a better understanding of the relevant factors and shares responsibility in the decision about how to proceed. This is a process of open communication or mutually acceptable decision. In this project the research staff will offer to participant personalized information about treatment and prevention options and their associated risks and benefits. The participant then should communicate to the staff his or her values, preferences and concerns related to these variables. The goal is to arrive at a joint decision regarding the best strategy. Patients will be informed, more likely to comply with the plan and more likely to be satisfied with their outcome. The Usual Decision Making (UDM) intervention or traditional biomedical care system will be the control group in this study. 600 participants from the ambulatory clinic at the Lincoln Hospital will be recruited and randomized into 2 groups, the Shared Decision Making (SDM) and Usual Decision Making (UDM) to test the effectiveness of interventions using SDM in changing participants health habits, compared to usual education and decision making (UDM). The overall goal of this study is to decrease the cardiovascular risk among the ambulatory clinic patients by utilizing a SDM intervention model to encourage health dietary choices, advocate exercise, educate, prompting patient decisions and directing self-efficacy to the healthier choices, to accomplish weight reduction (change in weight) and blood-pressure control (decrease and maintenance of healthy blood pressure). The interventions will take place in the form of Long (40 mins, ~100 Questions) and Brief (5 mins, ~5 Questions) sessions. The subject participation will take place over a 6 month time frame with a long-term follow-up at 12 months. Key interventions and follow-up will take place at Initial visit (recruitment day), with 3-, 6-, 9- and 12-month follow-ups. The Research Team is made up of Clinical Doctors and Medical Students that have been trained in Shared Decision Making (SDM) guidelines and patient engagement strategies to implement SDM model. Randomly assignment of subjects to treatment (SDM) and control (UDM) groups (repeated only once). Total participants 600; SDM=300 and UDM=300. Data for each time point will be gathered via paper Case Report Forms (CRFs) and entered into a data capture system on institutes HIPAA protected Intranet data-storage server (only accessed by designated Research Team Members). After data-entry and quality review is performed, de-identified data will be extracted via Microsoft Access into a Microsoft-Excel sheet. And data files will be uploaded on to statistical software, STATA SE version 14, for analysis. |
| Intervention type | Behavioural |
| Primary outcome measure(s) |
At baseline, 3-months, 6-months, 9-months, 12-months: |
| Key secondary outcome measure(s) |
1. Medical Knowledge measured using Questioner on High-Blood Pressure (1) and Obesity (2) to gauge knowledge of the disease awareness and disease process at baseline, 6-months, 12-months |
| Completion date | 31/01/2021 |
Eligibility
| Participant type(s) | Patient |
|---|---|
| Age group | Adult |
| Lower age limit | 18 Years |
| Sex | All |
| Target sample size at registration | 600 |
| Key inclusion criteria | 1. Ambulatory clinic patients that have an established record with a history of two appointments and follow-ups 2. Age 18 years and above 3. Hypertension, medical diagnosis with no more than three anti-hypertensive medications 4. Medical diagnosis of Diabetes Mellitus with hemoglobin A1c less than or equal to 8.0% 5. Calculated Body Mass Index between 25 kg/m2 and 40 kg/m2 |
| Key exclusion criteria | 1. Unable to provide informed consent in either English or Spanish for any reason, including cognitive impairment, psychiatric illness, drug or alcohol intoxication 2. Pregnant or are planning to become pregnant within the year 3. Participating in other trials, e.g. weight loss study 4. Prior history or present medical condition and/or surgical procedure related to the primary gastrointestinal tracts and/or accessory digestive organs affecting the transit or absorption of ingested nutrients, including but not limited to bariatric, pancreatic disease and multiple bowel surgeries 5. Severe comorbid diseases that can lead to unintentional weight change including cancer, HIV/AIDS, autoimmune disease, including and not limited to inflammatory bowel disease, in addition to chronic kidney disease, chronic liver disease and chronic heart disease 6. Severe disease, a terminal illness, be incapacitated (including stroke, myocardial infarction, coronary artery disease) with an expected limited life-span of less than a year 7. Living in an institutional setting (including nursing home, prison or group home) 8. Lab value abnormalities that preclude from participation in study interventions (i.e. significant anemia; derangement in electrolytes; elevation in liver function test; etc.) determined by the Investigator 9. Abnormalities in electrocardiogram studies, unless reviewed and cleared by a physician |
| Date of first enrolment | 01/06/2019 |
| Date of final enrolment | 31/12/2020 |
Locations
Countries of recruitment
- United States of America
Study participating centre
234 East 149th Street
Bronx
10451
United States of America
Results and Publications
| Individual participant data (IPD) Intention to share | No |
|---|---|
| IPD sharing plan summary | Data sharing statement to be made available at a later date |
| IPD sharing plan | The current data sharing plans for this study are unknown and will be available at a later date |
Study outputs
| Output type | Details | Date created | Date added | Peer reviewed? | Patient-facing? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Participant information sheet | Participant information sheet | 11/11/2025 | 11/11/2025 | No | Yes |
Editorial Notes
15/07/2020: The recruitment end date was changed from 30/06/2020 to 31/12/2020.
07/06/2019: Trial’s existence confirmed by Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center IRB.
