Act in Time -Implementation of Health Promotive Work-way in Primary Care Setting (AcTi)
NCT ID: NCT04799860
Last Updated: 2025-12-16
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
12000 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2021-03-30
2024-12-31
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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Despite support by the National guideline for prevention and treatment of unhealthy life-style habits, there is a chasm to bridge when integrating evidence into clinical practise. Prerequisites for changing work-ways are often underestimated and left to the individual co-workers to full fill on their own.
Too few patients are asked about life-style habits and too few receive evidence-based measures. The measures taken may also depend on sex, language, residence and caregiver's profession. The investigators strive to support the implementation of a health-promoting way of working that includes self-reporting of life-style habits before a visit and that takes measures for those with at least one unhealthy lifestyle habit.
The aim is to identify effective implementation strategies for health-promoting efforts in the primary care. The perceptions of barriers and opportunities when changing way of working from the target groups (leaders, co-workers, patients) will be used to enhance the possibility of successful implementation. Strategies are enhanced by theories of leading change. External and internal facilitators support the implementation.
The study will evaluate the effects and the implementation process at the level of leaders, patients, co-workers, facilitators and organisation in short (4-6 months) and long term (16-18 months).
The project provides generalizable knowledge on strategies to overcome the gap between evidence and praxis, contributing to utilize an existing synthesized knowledgebase regarding health-promoting and preventative workways in a Swedish primary care setting.
It is central for the health care system to identify successful implementation strategies in order to manage their future mission.
Conditions
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Study Design
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NON_RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
NONE
Study Groups
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health promotive work-way
Six primary care units that voluntarily enrolls as experimental units. The units will receive implementation support based on previous research and tailored to the specific prerequisits and context for each unit. Strategies includes involvement of target groups; informationa and interactive education;use of external and internal facilitators tarined for the purpose; systematic feedback and learning dialogs during the project. The implementation support will take approximately 12 months.
health promotive work-way
Clinical intervention: The patient is asked to fill in a screening form with life-style related questions. The caregiver takes adequate measures according to the recommendations of the national guideline and the filled in screeing form. The caregiver documents the measures taken.
Implementation intervention as described previously: using tailored strategies to support implementation of the gudieline-based recommendations
Control
Six primary care centers of similar size and socioeconomic background in the population listed to each center.
No interventions assigned to this group
Interventions
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health promotive work-way
Clinical intervention: The patient is asked to fill in a screening form with life-style related questions. The caregiver takes adequate measures according to the recommendations of the national guideline and the filled in screeing form. The caregiver documents the measures taken.
Implementation intervention as described previously: using tailored strategies to support implementation of the gudieline-based recommendations
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* being assigned a role as internal or external facilitator in the project
* 18 years or older
* visiting primary care units a specific time pre- or post implementation support
\* : having one or more unhealthy life-style habit 18 years or older
Inclusion criterina for managers:
\* being a manager at a primary care unit or at higher level
18 Years
ALL
Yes
Sponsors
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Region Örebro County
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Principal Investigators
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Ylva Nilsagård
Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
University Health Care Research Center, Region Örebro County
Locations
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Region Örebro County
Örebro, , Sweden
Countries
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References
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Wandell PE, de Waard AM, Holzmann MJ, Gornitzki C, Lionis C, de Wit N, Sondergaard J, Sonderlund AL, Kral N, Seifert B, Korevaar JC, Schellevis FG, Carlsson AC. Barriers and facilitators among health professionals in primary care to prevention of cardiometabolic diseases: A systematic review. Fam Pract. 2018 Jul 23;35(4):383-398. doi: 10.1093/fampra/cmx137.
Nilsen P, Schildmeijer K, Ericsson C, Seing I, Birken S. Implementation of change in health care in Sweden: a qualitative study of professionals' change responses. Implement Sci. 2019 May 14;14(1):51. doi: 10.1186/s13012-019-0902-6.
Weiner BJ, Lewis CC, Stanick C, Powell BJ, Dorsey CN, Clary AS, Boynton MH, Halko H. Psychometric assessment of three newly developed implementation outcome measures. Implement Sci. 2017 Aug 29;12(1):108. doi: 10.1186/s13012-017-0635-3.
Elf M, Nordmark S, Lyhagen J, Lindberg I, Finch T, Aberg AC. The Swedish version of the Normalization Process Theory Measure S-NoMAD: translation, adaptation, and pilot testing. Implement Sci. 2018 Dec 4;13(1):146. doi: 10.1186/s13012-018-0835-5.
Damschroder LJ, Aron DC, Keith RE, Kirsh SR, Alexander JA, Lowery JC. Fostering implementation of health services research findings into practice: a consolidated framework for advancing implementation science. Implement Sci. 2009 Aug 7;4:50. doi: 10.1186/1748-5908-4-50.
Glasgow RE, Vogt TM, Boles SM. Evaluating the public health impact of health promotion interventions: the RE-AIM framework. Am J Public Health. 1999 Sep;89(9):1322-7. doi: 10.2105/ajph.89.9.1322.
Nilsagard YE, Smith DR, Soderqvist F, Strid EN, Wallin L. Achieving health-promotion practice in primary care using a multifaceted implementation strategy: a non-randomized parallel group study. Implement Sci Commun. 2025 Apr 7;6(1):36. doi: 10.1186/s43058-025-00723-y.
Nilsing Strid E, Wallin L, Nilsagard Y. Exploring expectations and readiness for healthy lifestyle promotion in Swedish primary health care: a qualitative analysis of managers, facilitators, and professionals. Scand J Prim Health Care. 2024 Mar;42(1):201-213. doi: 10.1080/02813432.2023.2301556. Epub 2024 Feb 7.
Strid EN, Wallin L, Nilsagard Y. Expectations on implementation of a health promotion practice using individually targeted lifestyle interventions in primary health care: a qualitative study. BMC Prim Care. 2023 Jun 16;24(1):122. doi: 10.1186/s12875-023-02079-5.
Strid EN, Wallin L, Nilsagard Y. Implementation of a Health Promotion Practice Using Individually Targeted Lifestyle Interventions in Primary Health Care: Protocol for the "Act in Time" Mixed Methods Process Evaluation Study. JMIR Res Protoc. 2022 Aug 19;11(8):e37634. doi: 10.2196/37634.
Provided Documents
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Document Type: Study Protocol and Statistical Analysis Plan
Other Identifiers
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275301
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id