Personalized Patient and Caregiver Education After Stroke

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Stroke; Stroke, Ischemic; Stroke, Acute
• Interventions: Behavioral: Customized education; Behavioral: Standard of care discharge education

• Registration Number: NCT05118503
• Lead Sponsor: University of Pennsylvania

Brief Summary

This is a randomized pilot trial to evaluate the impact of a customizable stroke education app (vs standard of care discharge education) on patient satisfaction and education retention. The impact of the intervention will be assessed 7, 30, and 90 days post-discharge.

Detailed Description

Not available

Basic Information
|
Recruitment & Eligibility
|
Study & Design
|
Trial Locations

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2021-10-12
• Study Start: 2021-10-20
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-11-01
• Study First Posted: 2021-11-12
• Primary Completion: 2023-04-02
• Study Completion: 2023-04-02
• Status Verified: 2023-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-10-25
• Last Update Posted: 2023-10-26

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 120

Inclusion Criteria

• Admitted for ischemic stroke
• At least 18 years old
• Patient or caregiver has access to a smart phone, tablet or computer
• Being discharged to either home or acute rehab

Read More

Exclusion Criteria

• Patient or caregivers unable or unwilling to access the customized app with a smartphone, tablet, or computer
• Being discharged to a skilled nursing facility
• moderate-to-severe aphasia at the time of enrollment (as per NIHSS scoring) if patient is being enrolled without a caregiver

Read More

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Customized education app	Customized education	A customized URL-based platform will present brief education videos addressing a patients stroke etiology, risk factors, stroke prevention medications, and post-stroke lifestyle issues. This URL will be made available to the patient and caregiver.
Standard of care discharge education	Standard of care discharge education	Standard discharge education is performed by the bedside nurse at the time of hospital discharge.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Stroke Patient Education Retention (SPER) survey	Day 90	Validated measure of stroke patient education as it pertains to their stroke etiology and risk factors with scores of 0-10
Patient satisfaction survey	Day 90	Likert-style survey assessing patient satisfaction and perception of the stroke education they received.
Stroke etiology awareness	Day 90	accurate knowledge of stroke etiology (0=incorrect; 1=correct)
EuroQOL-VAS	Day 90	validated quality of life metric, with scores of 0-100

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
SPER, 30 days	Day 30	Stroke Patient Education Retention (SPER) survey
Stroke etiology awareness	Day 30	accurate knowledge of stroke etiology (0=incorrect; 1=correct)
Stroke risk factor awareness. 7 days	Day 7	accurate knowledge of stroke risk factors (0=incorrect; 1=correct)
Stroke risk factor awareness, 30 days	Day 30	accurate knowledge of stroke risk factors (0=incorrect; 1=correct)
Stroke risk factor awareness, 90 days	Day 90	accurate knowledge of stroke risk factors (0=incorrect; 1=correct)
Stroke prevention med awareness, 7 days	Day 7	accurate knowledge of stroke prevention medications (0=incorrect; 1=correct)
Stroke prevention med awareness, 30 days	Day 30	accurate knowledge of stroke prevention medications (0=incorrect; 1=correct)
Stroke prevention med awareness, 90 days	Day 90	accurate knowledge of stroke prevention medications (0=incorrect; 1=correct)
Patient satisfaction, 7 days	Day 7	Likert-style survey assessing patient satisfaction and perception of the stroke education
Patient satisfaction, 30 days	Day 30	Likert-style survey assessing patient satisfaction and perception of the stroke education
SPER, 7 days	Day 7	Stroke Patient Education Retention (SPER) survey

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; 🇺🇸 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States