Secondary Prevention and Health Promotion After Stroke

Skane University Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stroke

Treatments: Other: Standard care until one year follow-up; Other: Secondary prevention, supportive counselling

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01466907

UMASNL (Other Identifier)

MaStrokeFup0809

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study was to examine to what extent a one year population of stroke patients at a university hospital had well regulated risk factors and health problems one year after stroke, and if a structured nurse-led previous follow-up in the intervention group including referrals if needed could influence health outcome and risk factors one year after stroke.

Full description

The follow-up protocol was categorized into Risk factors, Patients' self-reports, and Other health problems. Referral was sent to a physician if medical interventions were needed regarding risk factors measured above the limits as stated in the follow-up protocol in accordance with guidelines,and/or if any self-reported health problems were stated by the patients, or had been detected by the Specialist Nurse. Primary outcome was comparison between the intervention group and control group at one year after stroke regarding proportion of regulated risk factors, and self-reports on health outcome. Results of the two follow-ups of the intervention group were also compared.

Enrollment: 597 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

WHO criteria for definition of stroke Signed consent

Exclusion criteria

Other diagnosis causing neurological symptoms

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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597 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Control of secondary prevention at three months and one year after stroke and referral to physician if medical interventions are needed. Assessment of functional status and self-reports on health outcome. Supportive counselling provided.

Treatment:

Other: Secondary prevention, supportive counselling

Control group

Other group

Description:

Standard care with no outlined follow-up until one year after stroke. Control of secondary prevention after one year after stroke and referral to physician if medical interventions are needed. Follow-up one year after stroke according to the same protocol as the intervention group.

Treatment:

Other: Standard care until one year follow-up