LOFIT (Lifestyle front Office For Integrating lifestyle medicine in the Treatment of patients)
The LOFIT study...
Description
Background: 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 ...
General Design
- Type
- Clinical trial, Cohort study
- Cohort type
- Clinical cohort
- Data collection type
- Prospective
- Design
- Longitudinal
- Design description
- randomized controlled trial
- Design schematic
- Design schematic
- Start/End data collection
- 2022 until 2024
- 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
- 325
- Population age groups
- Adult (18+ years)
- 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.
- Other exclusion criteria
- 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
- University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG)Netherlands (the)https://www.umcg.nl
- Amsterdam UMC Location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VUMC)Netherlands (the)https://vumc.nl
Additional organisations
- Ommelander Ziekenhuis Groningen (OZG)Netherlands (the)https://www.ommelanderziekenhuis.nl
Contributors
Available Data & Samples
Data categories
- Biological samples
- Survey data
- Medical records
- Physiological/Biochemical measurements
Sample categories
- Blood
- Blood (whole)
- Blood Buffy Coat
- Fetal blood (Cord blood)
- Plasma
- Serum
Areas of information
- Socio-demographic and economic characteristics
- Age/birthdate
- Sex/gender
- Family and household structure
- Education
- Residence
- Birthplace
- Labour force and retirement
- Job history
- Parental occupation
- Income, possessions, and benefits
- Other socio-demographic and economic characteristics
- Lifestyle and behaviours
- Tobacco
- Alcohol
- Drugs
- Nutrition
- Breastfeeding
- Physical activity
- Transportation
- Personal hygiene
- Sleep
- Sexual behaviours and orientation
- Leisure activities
- Technological devices
- Misbehaviour and criminality
- Other and unspecified lifestyle information
- Perception of health, quality of life, development and functional limitations
- Perception of health
- Quality of life
- Life course development
- Functional limitations
- Use of assistive devices
- Other perception of health, quality of life and functional limitation-related information
- Medication and supplements
- Medication and supplement intake
- Chemotherapy interventions
- Posology and protocol of administration
- Other and unspecified pharmacological interventions
- Health and community care services utilization
- Visits to health professionals
- Hospitalizations
- Community and social care
- Other health and community care
- Physical measures and assessments
- Physical characteristics
- Anthropometry
- Circulation and respiration
- Muscles, skeleton and mobility
- Sensory and pain
- Brain and nerves
- Skin and subcutaneous tissue
- Speech and voice
- Digestion
- Reproduction
- Other physical measures and assessments
- Laboratory measures
- Hematology
- Biochemistry
- Microbiology
- Virology
- Immunology
- Toxicology
- Histology
- Genomics
- Other laboratory measures
- Social environment and relationships
- Social participation
- Social support
Subpopulations
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Collection events
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Publications
Implementation barriers and facilitators for referral from the hospital to community-based lifestyle interventions from the perspective of lifestyle professionals: A qualitative study.
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
Matching implementation strategies to barriers and facilitators for a lifestyle front office in the hospital: a qualitative study.
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.