Education program aims to boost heart health and fight hunger in vulnerable groups
NCT ID NCT05379842
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tested whether teaching people about healthy lifestyles—through workshops or digital messages—could improve their cardiovascular health and help with food insecurity. It involved 460 participants from vulnerable populations. The goal was to see if better health knowledge leads to lasting improvements.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Education on a healthy lifestyle and health literacy
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this approach could show that simple education programs can improve heart health and reduce food insecurity in vulnerable communities.
- What could go wrong
- This is a completed study, so results are available but may not show strong effects. The intervention is educational, not a drug, so benefits may be modest and hard to sustain long-term.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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460 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Dec 2021
- Finished
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Jun 2024
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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12 to 80 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Participants from the general population without disabling diseases or whose severity implies a life expectancy of less than five years * Informed Consent Exclusion Criteria: * Age less than 12 years or equal to or greater than 80 years, with a life expectancy, not less than 5 years. * Patients with established cardiovascular disease * Patients with limitations to follow the protocol * Serious or difficult-to-control risk factors: Patients with hypertension and diabetes with organic involvement that limits their survival and disabling clinical manifestations of cerebral arteriosclerosis will be excluded. * Chronic diseases not related to coronary risk: severe psychiatric diseases, chronic processes requiring treatment such as chronic renal failure, chronic liver disease, neoplasms undergoing treatment, severe and very severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, endocrinopathies susceptible to decompensation, and digestive tract diseases. * Participants in other clinical trials at screening or within 30 days prior to start. * Excessive alcohol and drug abuse * Pregnant or lactating women.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Reina Sofia University Hospital
Córdoba, Spain
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