Improve Medication Adherence Among Stroke Survivors in Rural Kentucky (I-MAS)

Hend Mansoor

Status

Completed

Conditions

Stroke (CVA) or Transient Ischemic Attack

Treatments

Behavioral: I-MAS

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

NIH

Identifiers

NCT07084051

101375

1P50MD019476-01 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

To test the feasibility and promise of a combined intervention provided by community health worker (CHW) in collaboration with pharmacy technician and pharmacist to improve hypertension and long-term stroke outcomes by identifying and reducing barriers to medication adherence among ischemic stroke survivors. This collaborative intervention involves a self-management program including an educational session on practical strategies to improve hypertension control (i.e., appropriately taking medications, necessity of treatment, and consequences of not taking medicine, etc.), complemented by individually-tailored sessions to identify and address barriers to medication adherence.

Enrollment

4 patients

Sex

All

Ages

30 to 90 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Adult patients with history of ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) in the past 2 years
residing in a rural county in Kentucky

Exclusion criteria

significant aphasia
cognitive impairment
a terminal illness
other neurologic deficits that would impede from providing informed consent or meaningfully participate in the one-to-one sessions.
a prior aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage and or aneurysm, cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, vasculitis, blood clotting disorder due to genetic causes
if the patient does not take any secondary preventative medications