Testing a digital health tool to help prevent heart disease in rural clinics

This study is testing a digital health tool called PREVENT that helps doctors and community health workers provide personalized counseling about heart disease prevention during clinic visits. The tool shows your health information on a screen and helps create a customized plan for healthy eating and physical activity tailored just for you. Half of participants will use the tool with ongoing support from a health worker for 6 months, while the other half will receive a plan by email after their visit.

Heart disease happens much more often in rural communities than in cities, and rural patients—especially those with lower incomes—often don't get enough counseling and support to make healthy changes. This trial wants to see if using the PREVENT tool with ongoing support from a health worker can make counseling more effective and help close that gap in heart disease prevention.