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Effectiveness of a Public Campaign to Increase Stroke Awareness in Reducing Prehospital Delay

NCT01881152 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1772

Last updated 2015-01-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The starting hypothesis is that a multilevel educational campaign, specifically developed for the local community, can increase public stroke awareness and reduce pre-hospital delay.

The effectiveness of such intervention will be evaluated according to a cluster randomized, stepped wedged design. The clusters are the four communities of the Area Vasta Emilia Nord, AVEN (Parma, Piacenza, Modena e Reggio Emilia). As analysis Units, we will consider the patients consecutively admitted to the six participating hospitals throughout the study period, for suspected stroke or transitory ischemic attack (TIA).

Conditions

  • Acute Stroke

Interventions

OTHER

Educational campaign

Multilevel educational campaign on stroke sympton recognition and the need for calling the Emergency Services

OTHER

Usual care

Information on stroke usually delivered at the community level.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Parma

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Licia Denti, MD · Parma University Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-06-30
Primary Completion
2014-12-31
Completion
2014-12-31

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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