Effects of Patient-centered Stroke Educating System: a Randomized Controlled Trial

Health Education Clinical Trial

Official title:

Effects of Health-education Application on Improving Stroke-related Knowledge and Health Related Quality of Life in Patients With Stroke: a Randomized Controlled Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02591511
• Other study ID #: Taipei Medical University
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: October 2015
• Est. completion date: October 2016

Study information

• Verified date: October 2015
• Source: Taipei Medical University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The aim of this study is to establish PAtient-Centered Computerized Educating System for Stroke (PACCESS) for patients with different demands and lack of knowledge.Those in the intervention group will receive the PACCESS and the control groups will receive traditional health education to test the effects of PACCESS in increasing clinical decision-making, health behavior, activities of daily living and knowledge of stroke, and health care quality.

Description:

To prevent recurrent stroke and improve the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in patients with stroke, education regarding the risk factors of recurrent stroke is a crucial part of effective care for patients with stroke. The aim of this study was to develop an application capable of providing health education for recurrent-stroke prevention. We also examined the effectiveness of this app for improving stroke-related knowledge and HRQOL in patients with stroke.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 63
• Est. completion date: October 2016
• Est. primary completion date: October 2016
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 20 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• first time diagnosis of stroke (International Classification of Diseases, ninth revision, clinical modification [ICD-9] codes) of cerebral hemorrhage (ICD-9, 431) or cerebral infarction (ICD 9, 434)

• ability to follow instructions and complete the interviews

• having a designated caregiver who agrees to participate in the survey

• >6 years of education

• have smartphone or the other mobile device can download the APP from internet.

Exclusion Criteria:

• cognitive impairment (Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE scores<24)

• having major mental diseases (i.e., depression, dementia, delirium, etc.)

• the inability to read/answer questionnaires

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Health Education

Intervention

Device:
• smart phone and pad
Smart phone and pad is the mobile include the smart phone and pad, that can download the APP from internet.

Other:
• stroke-related health education manual
stroke-related health education manual is the manual mainly contained information regarding the prevention of stroke risk factors.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Taipei Medical University

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Stroke Health Education Knowledge Questionnaire	The stroke knowledge questionnaire is the primary outcome of this study. The questions are single-choice questions. The content of the questions are based on the stroke health education manual and adapted to APP format in this study. For the 12 risk factors, each risk factor was sorted out 3 questions. There are total of 36 (3x12 = 36) questions of stroke knowledge, a score of 1 for each question, the highest score of 3 for each risk factor, the highest score of 36 points and the lowest score of 0 point. The higher score represents the better outcome.	4 weeks