Gaspoz, J.M.

Kruseman, M.

Lamalle, D.

Prod'hom, M.

Rieder Nakhlé, A.

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Joint meeting of the Socie´te´ Franc¸aise de Nutrition and The Nutrition Society, 6–7 December 2007Development and process evaluation of a brief intervention on dietand CHD prevention in a university hospital primarycareoutpatient clinicM. Kruseman1, D. Lamalle1, M. Prod’hom1, A. Rieder Nakhle´2 and J. M. Gaspoz21University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Dietetics and Nutrition, Geneva, Switzerland and 2Division ofPrimary Care Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, SwitzerlandDietary counselling is an important aspect of CHD prevention. However, at-risk patients may be reluctant to visit a dietitian. Generalpractitioners (GP) could participate in the CHD prevention effort, but often have difficulty when counselling patients on their diet. A teamof dietitians and physicians have designed a five-step brief intervention (BI) to be used by GP. The aim was to evaluate the feasibility andacceptability of this dietary BI among physicians and patients.The content of the BI was based on published recommendations on dietary CHD prevention and its design was supervised by aphysician experienced in BI technique. Five GP in a primarycare setting agreed to test the BI among their patients for 1 month andparticipated in two 2 h training sessions. Two trainee dietitians approached the patients and asked them to fill in a screening questionnaireon their dietary habits. Answers were used by the physician to define, along with a decision algorithm, the content of a short counsellingsession that was integrated into the routine medical visit. The BI process and its acceptability by patients and physicians were assessed bymeans of standardised interviews and questionnaires.Of seventy-six patients included, forty-nine (65%) received the BI, which took 5–10 min in a 30 min consultation. Reasons forphysicians not to implement the BI were ‘lack of time’ (n 20) or ‘no interest of the patient’ (n 7). Three of the five steps were performed>70% of the time. All physicians rated the tool as ‘useful’ and their average motivation score remained high during the study period: 6.8(SD 1.1)–6.3 (SD 1.4) on a ten-point scale. Of the forty-nine patients who received the BI, thirty-six (78%) said that they had learnedsomething new about their diet in relation to CHD and thirty-one (64%) were able to identify at least one dietary habit they planned tochange. Of the patients 98% thought it was their physician’s role to discuss their diet to prevent CHD.This BI on diet and CHD prevention seemed to be functional and acceptable in general medical practice. Patients and physicians ratedthe tool as useful. Most patients identified dietary habits they could change. The next objective is to evaluate the ability of this BI tomodify patients’ dietary behaviour.Proceedings of the Nutrition Society (2008), 67 (OCE), E182 doi:10.1017/S0029665108008148https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0029665108008148Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 30 May 2017 at 17:58:35, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at

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