LOFIT
LOFIT study...
Description
A healthy lifestyle is indispensable for the prevention of noncommunicable diseases. However, lifestyle medicine is hampered by time constraints and competing priorities of treating physicians. A dedicated lifestyle front office (LFO) in secondary/te...
General Design
- Type
- Clinical trial, Cohort study
- Cohort type
- Clinical cohort
- Data collection type
- Prospective
- Design
- Longitudinal
- Design description
- randomized controlled trial
- Start/End data collection
- 2022 (ongoing)
- Design paper
- LOFIT (Lifestyle front Office For Integrating lifestyle medicine in the Treatment of patients): a novel care model towards community-based options for lifestyle change—study protocol
- PID
- https://doi.org/10.34760/675c32173d7b7
Population
- Countries
- Netherlands (the)
- Regions
- Noord-Holland, Groningen
- Number of participants
- 364
- Population age groups
- Adult (18+ years)
- Inclusion criteria
- BMI range inclusion criterion
- Clinically relevant lifestyle inclusion criterion
- Health status inclusion criterion
- Other inclusion criteria
- Patients with (an increased risk for) cardiovascular disorders (i.e. cardiovascular disease, hypertension, high cholesterol, diabetes mellitus I and II) or with musculoskeletal disorders (i.e. osteoarthritis, total knee or hip prosthesis) aged ≥18 years are eligible for inclusion. Further inclusion criteria are (1) having a body mass index (BMI) of ≥ 25 kg/m2 and/or (2) smoking. Patients will be excluded if they are not able to walk at least 100 m safely (e.g. wheelchair-bound), are pregnant, are cognitively unable to comply with a healthy lifestyle intervention referral or to complete study measurements or are not able to communicate in the Dutch or English language.
Organisations
Lead organisations
- Amsterdam University Medical Centers - location VUmc (Amsterdam UMC)https://www.vumc.nl/
- University Medical Centre Groningen (UMCG)Netherlands (the)https://www.umcg.nl/
Additional organisations
- Ommelander Ziekenhuis Groningen https://www.ommelanderziekenhuis.nl/
Subpopulations
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Collection events
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Publications
Funding & Acknowledgements
- Funding
- This study is funded by The Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (ZonMw) under grant agreement no. 555003208. The funders will not have any role in data collection, analysis, interpretation of the data or decision to submit results.