The Logan Healthy Living Program: A cluster randomized trial of a telephone-delivered physical activity and dietary behavior intervention for primary care patients with type 2 diabetes or hypertension from a socially disadvantaged community — Rationale, design and recruitment

Eakin, Elizabeth G.; Reeves, Marina M.; Lawler, Sheleigh P.; Oldenburg, Brian; Del Mar, Chris; Wilkie, Ken; Spencer, Adele; Battistutta, Diana; Graves, Nicholas

doi:10.1016/j.cct.2007.10.005

The Logan Healthy Living Program: A cluster randomized trial of a telephone-delivered physical activity and dietary behavior intervention for primary care patients with type 2 diabetes or hypertension from a socially disadvantaged community — Rationale, design and recruitment

BACKGROUND Physical activity and dietary behavior changes are important to both the primary prevention and secondary management of the majority of our most prevalent chronic conditions (i.e., cardiovascular disease, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, breast and colon cancer). With over 85% of Austral…