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Effect of Intervention to Improve Stroke Recognition

NCT01497886 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 4614

Last updated 2020-07-15

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Summary

Despite the abundance of stroke education materials available, studies continue to reveal severe deficiencies in stroke literacy (knowledge of symptoms, urgent action, and prevention measures). Expensive mass media stroke education campaigns are not sustainable for this purpose, particularly in economically disadvantaged populations. Instead, the investigators propose to intervene in school classrooms with children aged 9 to 11 years, to teach the five cardinal stroke symptoms, the correct course of action when they occur, and to highlight the potential therapeutic benefit of early hospital arrival, with the intent that the children will then educate their parents. To help accomplish this, the investigators have developed a program called Hip Hop Stroke (HHS), which is comprised of rap songs and two animated musical cartoons that incorporate stroke knowledge.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Hip Hop Stroke educational program

Three one-hour sessions, conducted over three consecutive days

BEHAVIORAL

Nutrition Education program

The investigators will use what they will refer to as a "usual care" control. For this purpose the investigators have selected nutrition, physical activity, and obesity education. A trained facilitator will conduct the control program in the school auditorium. The investigators will use this control method to control for "attention", i.e., having a facilitator come to the classroom for the same amount of time as in the intervention that is, 1-hour sessions on three consecutive days. The facilitator will provide focused lectures on relevant topics, and show two short, 4-minute animated films on nutrition, and physical activity. The investigator will conduct parallel pretests and post-tests on the children (same as intervention testing sequence).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)

    collaborator NIH

  • Columbia University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Olajide A. Williams, MD MS · Columbia University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
7 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-03-31
Primary Completion
2015-06-23
Completion
2016-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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