title: Effectiveness of personalized face-to-face and telephone nursing counseling interventions for cardiovascular risk factors: a controlled clinical trial.
abstract: to evaluate the effect and gender differences of an innovative intervention involving in-person and telephone nursing counseling to control cardiovascular risk factors (arterial hypertension, dyslipidemia, and overweight), improve health-related quality of life and strengthen self-efficacy and social support in persons using the municipal health centers' cardiovascular health program.
  
  
  
  a randomized controlled clinical trial involving participants randomized into the intervention group who received traditional consultation plus personalized and telephone nursing counseling for 7 months (n = 53) and the control group (n = 56). The study followed the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials Statement.
  
  
  
  women in the intervention group presented a significant increase in the physical and mental health components compared to the control group, with decreases in weight, abdominal circumference, total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and the atherogenic index. The effects attributable to the intervention in the men in the intervention group were increased physical and emotional roles and decreased systolic and diastolic pressure, waist circumference, total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, atherogenic index, cardiovascular risk factor, and 10-year coronary risk.
  
  
  
  this intervention is an effective strategy for the control of three cardiovascular risk factors and the improvement of health-related quality of life.
authors: PhD, Professor, Escuela de Enfermería, Universidad de Costa Rica, Montes de Oca, San José.
authors: Vivian
authors: V
authors: Vílchez Barboza
authors: PhD, Full Professor, Facultad de Enfermería, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile.
authors: Tatiana Paravic
authors: TP
authors: Klijn
authors: PhD, Associate Professor, Facultad de Enfermería, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile.
authors: Alide
authors: A
authors: Salazar Molina
authors: PhD, Associate Professor, Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, Departamento de Estadística, Universidad de Concepción, Chile.
authors: Katia Lorena
authors: KL
authors: Sáez Carrillo
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000451:nursing*; D037001:Directive Counseling / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011788:Quality of Life; D012307:Risk Factors; D020377:Self Efficacy; D016037:Single-Blind Method; D012944:Social Support; D013689:Telephone