Motivational Interviewing for Stroke

University of Florida

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Transient Ischemic Attack; Acute Stroke

Treatments: Behavioral: Motivational Interview

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06195007

IRB202201687

Details and patient eligibility

About

Motivational interviewing (MI) is a style of communication designed to elicit a person's own reasons for change to drive commitment toward a goal. The goal of this study is to assess the effect of trainee-led MI on patients diagnosed with acute stroke or TIA attributable to modifiable risk factors in comparison to conventional post-stroke counseling, based on patient outcomes, and meaning of work and sense of fulfillment for trainees.

Enrollment: 1 patient

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient presentation consistent with a stroke or TIA
• Patient is a current tobacco user and tobacco use contributed to the stroke
• Resident enrolled in study assigned to Vascular Neurology service during patient admission.

Exclusion criteria

• Patient unable or unwilling to follow up in the outpatient stroke clinic after discharge
• Patient has cognitive impairment or aphasia that would preclude meaningful participation in motivational interview (defined as a score of 0 on the National Institute of Health Stroke Scale [NIHSS] questions 1 and 9)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1 participants in 2 patient groups

Motivational Interview

Experimental group

Description:

Patients included in the study who are being treated by a resident in the MI intervention group will have a motivational interview during their initial hospitalization.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Motivational Interview

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients included in the study who are being treated by a resident in the Control group will not have a motivational interview during their hospitalization.