A Community Partnership to Treat Stroke

University of Michigan

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stroke

Treatments: Behavioral: Stroke Preparedness Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01499173

GRANT10624910

1K23NS073685-01 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Getting to the hospital quickly is the key to treating stroke. African Americans suffer more strokes with worse outcomes and receive stroke treatments less often than European Americans. This project will work to reduce these health disparities by creating and testing the feasibility of a peer-led faith-based behavioral intervention in an African American community with a goal to increase calls to 911 so stroke patients can be treated quickly.

Enrollment: 101 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 10+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

To meet participant eligibility criteria, individuals must be 18 years of age or older (adult intervention) or between 10-17 years of age (youth intervention), a resident of the Flint or greater Flint community, and English speaking.

Exclusion criteria

We will attempt to exclude those who cannot read English because they will not be able to benefit from the intervention materials. These criteria will be confirmed during assessment procedures prior to enrollment.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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101 participants in 1 patient group

Stroke preparedness intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Youth and adults from predominately African American churches in Flint will be enrolled to undergo a faith-based, scientific theory-driven, peer-led behavioral intervention utilizing a pre-post test design.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Stroke Preparedness Intervention