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Preventing Recurrence of All Inner-city Strokes Through Education
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Prevent Return of Stroke for Stroke Recurrence and Transient Ischemic Attack. Completed, enrolled 600 participants across 1 site.
Detailed 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.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
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.
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.