Person-centered Follow up and Health Promotion Program After Revascularization for Intermittent Claudication (FASTIC)
Intermittent Claudication
About this trial
This is an interventional prevention trial for Intermittent Claudication focused on measuring Prevention and control
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Adult patients who is scheduled for revascularization, through open and/or endovascular surgery for IC diagnosed according to Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) with I70.2 or I739B
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients not treated through surgery or revascularization
- Patients diagnosed with dementia
- Patients discharge to a nursery home,
- Patients not accountable for administrating their own medications
- Patients with a survival expectancy less than one year
Sites / Locations
- Department of Surgery, Unit of Vascular Surgery, Södersjukhuset
- Karolinska University Hospital, Dept of Vascular Surgery
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
No Intervention
Person-centered follow up
Standard follow up
The intervention program is a person-centered health promotion program led by a nurse and consists of two telephone calls (15 minutes each) at two weeks and nine months after surgical treatment for Intermittent Claudication and three visits (45 - 60 min) at six weeks, six months and one year after treatment. The program includes a baseline assessment, an individual plan for self-care and educational information about Intermittent Claudication, received treatment and secondary prevention (medication and modifiable risk factors). The purpose is to enhance self-care in terms of adherence to medication and to recommended changes of lifestyle.
Standard follow-up consist of two follow up appointments á 20 minutes at four-six weeks and one year after surgical treatment of Intermittent Claudication. The patients meet a vascular surgeon at the first follow up and a vascular nurse or a surgeon at the second follow up visit.