Systematic Development of Structured Semi-interactive Stroke Prevention Package for Secondary Stroke Prevention.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Lack of compliance to medication and uncontrolled risk factors are associated with increased risk of recurrent stroke and acute coronary syndrome in patients with recent stroke. Multimodal patient education may be a strategy to improve the compliance to medication and early adoption of nonpharmacological measures to reduce the vascular risk factor burden in patients with stroke. We thus aim to develop multilingual short messaging services (SMS), print, and audio-visual secondary stroke prevention patient education package. The efficacy of the package will be tested in a randomized control trial to prevent major cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events.

Methods

In the formative stage, intervention materials (SMS, video, and workbook) were developed. In the

SUBMITTER: Kate MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7887475 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature