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Trial reportThe review of diabetic studies : RDS2012

Telephone counseling intervention improves dietary habits and metabolic parameters of patients with the metabolic syndrome: a randomized controlled trial.

Evaggelia Fappa, Mary Yannakoulia, Maria Ioannidou, Yannis Skoumas, Christos Pitsavos, Christodoulos Stefanadis

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Trial report in The review of diabetic studies : RDS, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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17 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Mediterranean diet and metabolic syndrome: an updated systematic review.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2013
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  15. The Impact Of Structured Exercise Programs On Metabolic Syndrome And Its Components: A Systematic Review.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Evaggelia FappaDepartment of Nutrition and Dietetics, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece.
Mary Yannakoulia
Maria Ioannidou
Yannis Skoumas
Christos Pitsavos
Christodoulos Stefanadis
Harokopio University of Athens · GRNational and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundPatients with the metabolic syndrome (MetS) can suffer from poor metabolic parameters through lack of adherence to requisite lifestyle changes in dietary and physical activity. Usually, interventions in MetS patients are infrequent face-to-face consultations. The low frequency or absence of counseling interviews leads to a shortage of information and motivation to adhere to the recommended lifestyle changes. Telephone interventions could be an additional low-cost tool for effective interventions.

aimTo evaluate the effectiveness of telephone intervention in improving lifestyle habits and metabolic parameters in MetS patients compared with similar face-to-face or a usual care interventions.

methodsEighty-seven MetS patients recruited from the outpatient clinic of a major public hospital were randomly assigned to one of the three intervention groups: "usual care", "telephone" or "face-to-face". At the beginning of the study, all patients were provided with a hypocaloric Mediterranean-type diet. Afterwards, patients in the telephone group received 7 dietary counseling calls, patients in the face-to-face group participated in 7 one-to-one dietary counseling sessions, while patients in the usual care group received no other contact until the end of the study, 6 months later. All patients underwent full medical and nutritional evaluation at the beginning and at the end of the intervention.

resultsAt the end of the intervention, 42% of the participants no longer showed symptoms of MetS; the reduction rates differed significantly between the groups (p = 0.024), with those in the face-to-face and telephone group exhibiting similar rates (52% and 54%, respectively, vs. 21% in the usual care group). Between-group analysis revealed that the face-to-face group achieved the greatest improvement in metabolic parameters, while the telephone group had the greatest improvement in dietary adherence compared with the usual care group.

conclusionsTelephone counseling is an effective way to implement behavioral counseling to improve lifestyle habits in MetS patients.

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Feeding BehaviorAdultCounselingFemaleHumansInterviews as TopicMaleMetabolic SyndromeMiddle AgedTreatment Outcome

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PMID22972443
PMCPMC3448172
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