Evaluating practical support stroke survivors get with medicines and unmet needs in primary care: a survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To design a questionnaire and use it to explore unmet needs with practical aspects of medicine taking after stroke, predictors of medicine taking and to estimate the proportion of survivors who get support with daily medication taking.

Design

Four workshops with stroke survivors and caregivers to design the questionnaire.A cross-sectional postal questionnaire in primary care.

Setting

18 general practitioner practices in the East of England and London. Questionnaires posted between September 2016 and February 2017.

Participants

1687 stroke survivors living in the community outside institutional long-term care.

Primary outcome measures

The proportion of community stroke survivors receiving support from caregivers for practical aspects of medicin

SUBMITTER: Jamison J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5855212 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature