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Secondary Prevention and Health Promotion After Stroke

NCT01466907 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 597

Last updated 2014-01-23

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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.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Secondary prevention, supportive counselling

Patients' self-reports on Mobility, Self Care, Usual activities, Pain/Discomfort, Anxiety/Depression, Health Outcome were registered. Health problems were assessed. Secondary prevention was controlled by measuring blood pressure, Cholesterol levels, HbA1c, Weight to estimate nutritional status. Functional status was assessed. Supportive counselling was provided. Referral was sent to physician if medical interventions were needed.

OTHER

Standard care until one year follow-up

No intervention three months after stroke. Assessment one year after stroke and comparison with the intervention group.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Skane University Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ann-Cathrin Jönsson, PhD · Department of Health Sciences, Lund University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-02-29
Primary Completion
2010-02-28
Completion
2010-04-30

Countries

  • Sweden

Study Locations

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