Stroke Ready Intervention: Community Engagement to Decrease Prehospital Delay.

ABSTRACT: Time-limited acute stroke treatments are underused, primarily due to prehospital delay. One approach to decreasing prehospital delay is to increase stroke preparedness, the ability to recognize stroke, and the intention to immediately call emergency medical services, through community engagement with high-risk communities. Our community-academic partnership developed and tested "Stroke Ready," a peer-led, workshop-based, health behavior intervention to increase stroke preparedness among African American youth and adults in Flint, Michigan. Outcomes were measured with a series of 9 stroke and nonstroke 1-minute video vignettes; after each video, participants selected their intended response (primary outcome) and symptom recognition (secondary outcome), receiving 1 point for each appropriate

SUBMITTER: Skolarus LE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4889198 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature