Would Knowing Your Risk For Getting Stroke Make You Change Your Lifestyle?

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Stroke; Stroke - Ischaemic; Stroke - Haemorrhagic

• Registration Number: ACTRN12618002050235
• Lead Sponsor: niversiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Fundamental Research Grant

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2018-12-21
• Study Completion: 2019-06-06
• Last Update Posted: 28 November 2022

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 75

Inclusion Criteria

i.Aged at or more than 18 years old.
ii.Owns a smartphone and knows how to use it.
iii.Able to read and speak either in Bahasa Malaysia or English.
iv. Stroke caregivers

Exclusion Criteria

i.The care recipient i.e. post stroke patient resides in nursing home.
ii.Pregnant caregivers. Enrolling pregnant mother to this trial for intervention and advices might affect their own health and the unborn foetus for example encouraging on low calorie diet or moderate intensity exercise. As some pregnancy might be entered in different trimester, their baseline assessment of weight, blood pressure, cholesterol will be remarkably different due to hormonal and physiological changes.
iii.Stroke caregivers with possible depression (i.e. Respondents with positive score on the Two Question With Help Questionnaire i.e. a screening tool for depression

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
To determine feasibility of the intervention of using Stroke Riskometer Application in influencing lifestyle changes in stroke caregivers. Feasibility of the studies is measured by willingness of participants to be recruited and randomised (number=n), number of eligible carers, follow up rate, time needed to collect data.[3 months post commencement of stroke riskometer application.]

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
To assess risk of stroke among stroke caregivers at 5 and 10 years in percentage using Stroke Riskometer.<br><br>[3 months post commencement of stroke riskometer application];To determine the lifestyle changes of stroke caregivers within 3 months after knowledge of personal stroke risk assessed by Stroke Riskometer as measured by Life’s Simple 7 questionnaire.[3 months post commencement of stroke riskometer application]