A telehealth intervention to promote healthy lifestyles after stroke: The Stroke Coach protocol.

ABSTRACT: Rationale Recurrent stroke is prevalent and associated with high mortality rates, disability, and social and economic costs. Adequate management of risk factors may reduce recurrent stroke; however, many stroke survivors have poor control of risk factors. We have developed a theoretically sound and evidence-based lifestyle modification program called the Stroke Coach, a telephone-based self-management program to improve control of risk factors. Hypothesis Individuals who participate in Stroke Coach will achieve more lifestyle improvements than individuals in an attention controlled Memory Training Program. Design In this single blind randomized controlled trial, 126 community-living stroke survivors will be randomized to Stroke Coach or the attention control group. Participants randomized

SUBMITTER: Sakakibara BM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5770204 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature