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Patients who received booklet self management only did not report any adverse events or serious adverse reactions.
The group that received booklet self management with telephone support also reported no adverse events or serious adverse reactions, although one participant fell after feeling dizzy from performing the exercises, breaking a foot bone.
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Participants received booklets for each day of the study.
If the subjects did not participate in the second set of lectures, they received booklets from the workshop manager.
Patients involved in the study were asked to select a lifestyle area of focus and received booklets with information on BP self-management, a healthy eating fact sheet, and a personal health tracker logbook from their health care providers to help them track BP, blood glucose, cholesterol, and the progress of their selected lifestyle goals.
The study was powered for a comparison between the participants allocated to receive booklet self management with telephone support and those allocated to receive routine care.
The increased improvement seen in participants allocated to receive booklet self management with telephone support, compared with the routine care group, failed to reach statistical significance.
We hypothesised that in patients with chronic dizziness, those receiving booklet self management for vestibular rehabilitation exercises with telephone support would report fewer symptoms than those receiving routine care at 12 weeks.
Fewer patients in this group (five (5%) of 95) than in the usual care group (15 (15%) of 99) reported worse symptoms at one year follow-up; outcomes for the group allocated to receive booklet self management only were intermediate.
At 12 weeks, compared with routine care, the group allocated to receive booklet self management with telephone support improved on the autonomic anxiety subscale of the vertigo symptom scale.
This difference in proportions was not significant (95% confidence interval −3% to 22%, P=0.119), but exploratory retrospective analyses showed that patients in the telephone support group reported carrying out the exercises at a greater intensity than those in the group receiving booklet self management only (web appendix).
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