Prevent Return of Stroke Study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate if a peer-led stroke recurrence prevention intervention, versus usual care, will help reduce risk factors for recurrent strokes among adults in Harlem.

Conditions

• Stroke Recurrence
• Transient Ischemic Attack

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Prevent Return of Stroke

Prevent Return of Stroke is a community-based, peer-led stroke recurrence prevention program. This is a bilingual (English/Spanish) education program written at a 4th grade reading level, and contains simple, actionable, messages, easily taught by lay leaders, and focuses on enhancing self-efficacy to make lifestyle changes, to help reduce stroke recurrence risk factors. It consists of 6 sessions (1½ hours each) held over 6-weeks. Topics include learning the risk factors for stroke, controlling hypertension, LDL cholesterol, preventing blood clots, medication adherence, and stress management.The intervention arm will participate in the intervention shortly after enrolling in the trial.

BEHAVIORAL

Prevent Return of Stroke

The intervention arm will participate in the intervention shortly after enrolling in the trial. The usual care arm will be offered the intervention after 12 months from enrolling in the trial.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)

  collaborator NIH

• North General Hospital, New York

  collaborator OTHER

• Stanford University

  collaborator OTHER

• Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Carol R Horowitz, MD, MPH · Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

DOUBLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

40 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2009-06-30

Primary Completion

2013-02-28

Completion

2013-02-28

Countries

• United States

Study Locations