Grant: Operating Grant

Cardiovascular disease related to lifestyle (in particular, a person's diet, exercise habits, smoking status, stress levels, and alcohol consumption) is on the rise in Canada, especially in Newfoundland. Interventions aimed at promoting lifestyle change without addressing an overall change in how people think are less likely to be successful in the long run. Using a nurse coaching delivery model, we hope to determine whether people with pre-diabetes and pre-hypertension will change the way they think about their health and change their unhealthy lifestyle behaviours. The primary outcomes of the study are change in thinking and change in lifestyle. The intervention will last for 6 months and the outcomes will be measured at the end of the intervention and again at 12 months. We hope to prove that the intervention will be effective at changing lifestyle at 6 months and that those people who also changed their thinking will continue to have improved lifestyle at 12 months.