TY - JOUR
T1 - Appointment Adherence to a City-Wide Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Program
T2 - Its Predictors and Outcomes
AU - Choo, Jina
AU - Yang, Hwa Mi
AU - Park, Sooyeon
AU - Park, Mi Suk
AU - Park, Yoo Mi
AU - Lim, Do Sun
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant by the Korea government (No. NRF-2019R1A2C1004116) and the Institute of Nursing Research of Korea University.
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PY - 2021/7
Y1 - 2021/7
N2 - This study identified predictors of appointment adherence and examined its impacts on improvements in metabolic risk factors in a free city-wide cardiovascular disease prevention program in Seoul, South Korea. Data of 8251 citizens with metabolic syndrome were used. Appointment adherers were defined as having 70% or higher adherence rates, that is, 3 or more visits. Of the 8251 citizens, 17.6% were appointment adherers. Appointment adherers were significantly more likely to be older, low-income earners, nonsmokers, and nonobese than appointment nonadherers. Moreover, appointment adherers, compared with nonadherers, showed significant improvements in waist circumference, systolic blood pressure, and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, but not in fasting glucose and triglycerides. Designing strategies for increasing appointment adherence to a free city-wide cardiovascular disease prevention program is essential to improve health outcomes, especially targeting population groups with young age, high-income, current smoking, or obesity.
AB - This study identified predictors of appointment adherence and examined its impacts on improvements in metabolic risk factors in a free city-wide cardiovascular disease prevention program in Seoul, South Korea. Data of 8251 citizens with metabolic syndrome were used. Appointment adherers were defined as having 70% or higher adherence rates, that is, 3 or more visits. Of the 8251 citizens, 17.6% were appointment adherers. Appointment adherers were significantly more likely to be older, low-income earners, nonsmokers, and nonobese than appointment nonadherers. Moreover, appointment adherers, compared with nonadherers, showed significant improvements in waist circumference, systolic blood pressure, and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, but not in fasting glucose and triglycerides. Designing strategies for increasing appointment adherence to a free city-wide cardiovascular disease prevention program is essential to improve health outcomes, especially targeting population groups with young age, high-income, current smoking, or obesity.
KW - cardiovascular diseases
KW - metabolic syndrome
KW - patient adherence
KW - patient appointment
KW - primary prevention
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85106762203&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/10105395211012912
DO - 10.1177/10105395211012912
M3 - Article
C2 - 34041933
AN - SCOPUS:85106762203
SN - 1010-5395
VL - 33
SP - 555
EP - 563
JO - Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health
JF - Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health
IS - 5
ER -
