Secondary Prevention and Health Promotion After Stroke

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Stroke
• Interventions: Other: Secondary prevention, supportive counselling; Other: Standard care until one year follow-up

• Registration Number: NCT01466907
• Lead Sponsor: Skane University Hospital

Brief Summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2008-02
• Primary Completion: 2010-02
• Study Completion: 2010-04
• Study First Submitted: 2011-11-04
• Study First Submitted QC: 2011-11-04
• Study First Posted: 2011-11-08
• Status Verified: 2014-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2014-01-22
• Last Update Posted: 2014-01-23

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 597

Inclusion Criteria

WHO criteria for definition of stroke Signed consent

Exclusion Criteria

Other diagnosis causing neurological symptoms

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intervention group	Secondary prevention, supportive counselling	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.
Control group	Standard care until one year follow-up	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.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Risk factors and health outcome compared between intervention group and control group	Baseline to one year after stroke for both groups.	Outcome for both groups after one year was measured as the proportion of risk factors sufficiently treated, the patients' self-reports on health outcome and comparison between the intervention group and the control group.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Risk factors and health outcome at two follow-ups.	Baseline to one year after stroke	Comparison of health outcome at three months and one year after stroke in the intervention group.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Skåne University Hospital; 🇸🇪 Malmö, Sweden