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. 2012 May 15;12:33. doi: 10.1186/1471-2261-12-33

Table 1.

Outline of the study design

Cardiac wards 1 to 4: Cardiac wards 5 to 8:
O1 UC O2 O3
 O1 UC O2 O3
O1 FC O2 O3
 O1 TC O2 O3
O1 TC O2 O3 O1 FC O2 O3

O1: baseline measurement with questionnaire; UC Usual Care condition; FC Face-to-face Counselling experimental condition; TC Telephone Counselling experimental condition; O2: six months follow-up measurement by telephone interview; O3: 12 months follow-up measurement by telephone interview and biomedical measurements (saliva, cholesterol, blood pressure).