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Lifestyle Medicine: Establishing Clinical Approaches to Chronic Disease for Rural Patients
Developed nations worldwide are currently enduring a health crisis, as chronic diseases continue to decrease quality of life and promote additional disease states or even death for much of the population. Rural populations are at a particular disadvantage, as they lack access to health clubs, wellness programs and similar resources that are more available in urban areas. Although pharmaceutical therapies have continued to show therapeutic advancements, the rates of disease onset and death from chronic disease has not seen similar improvements, and in fact continue to worsen. Excitingly, significant evidence has been published demonstrating an affordable, effective treatment to directly treat and prevent these chronic diseases, but few have demonstrated successful implementation of this therapy, which is improved lifestyle. Specifically, physical activity and healthy body composition are powerful therapeutics that have been demonstrated to effectively combat and prevent chronic diseases. Additionally, improving these lifestyle factors are often more effective than pharmaceutical interventions without the wide range of side effects. Unfortunately, barriers exist on multiple tiers in the practice of family medicine that demote the implementation of lifestyle medicine. To better serve patients at risk of, or suffering from chronic disease, the investigators are seeking to establish a lifestyle medicine prescription program for rural West Virginia. This program will provide patient education on the benefits of physical activity, body composition, and help patients identify strategies to implement healthy lifestyle choices that can be sustainable for the long-term. Patients will be advised on local opportunities to increase physical activity (yoga studio, martial arts, fitness facilities, aquatic center, etc.) and provided access to the facilities they are most likely to adhere to regularly. They will also be provided training on exercise techniques, equipment, and facilities to increase familiarity and comfort in these settings.
Conditions:
🦠 Obesity 🦠 Hyperlipidemias 🦠 Polycystic Ovary Syndrome 🦠 Hypertension 🦠 Coronary Heart Disease 🦠 Heart Failure 🦠 Depression, Anxiety 🦠 Type II Diabetes 🦠 Metabolic Syndrome
🗓️ Study Start (Actual) April 2024
🗓️ Primary Completion (Estimated) September 2025
✅ Study Completion (Estimated) September 2025
👥 Enrollment (Estimated) 95
🔬 Study Type INTERVENTIONAL
📊 Phase NA
Locations:
📍 Lewisburg, West Virginia, United States

📋 Eligibility Criteria

Description

    Inclusion Criteria:

    • * Program admittance will be restricted to patients with 2+ diagnosed diseases that have sufficient evidence for the efficacy of exercise therapy (obesity, hyperlipidemia, metabolic syndrome, polycystic ovarian syndrome, type II diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart disease, heart failure, depression, anxiety)
    • * physician referral required

    Exclusion Criteria:

    • * no chronic disease diagnosis, lack of physician referral, unwillingness to participate.
Ages Eligible for Study: 18 Years to 64 Years (ADULT)
Sexes Eligible for Study: ALL
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

🗓️ Study Record Dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Registration Dates

  • First Submitted 12 September 2023
  • First Submitted that Met QC Criteria 19 September 2023
  • First Posted 22 September 2023

Study Record Updates

  • Last Update Submitted that Met QC Criteria 17 October 2023
  • Last Update Posted 19 October 2023
  • Last Verified October 2023