Interventions for behaviour change and self-management in stroke secondary prevention: protocol for an overview of reviews.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Stroke secondary prevention guidelines recommend medication prescription and adherence, active education and behavioural counselling regarding lifestyle risk factors. To impact on recurrent vascular events, positive behaviour/s must be adopted and sustained as a lifestyle choice, requiring theoretically informed behaviour change and self-management interventions. A growing number of systematic reviews have addressed complex interventions in stroke secondary prevention. Differing terminology, inclusion criteria and overlap of studies between reviews makes the mechanism/s that affect positive change difficult to identify or replicate clinically. Adopting a two-phase approach, this overview will firstly comprehensively summarise systematic reviews in this area and secondly

SUBMITTER: Lennon O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6292177 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature