Evaluating stroke patients' awareness of risk factors and readiness to change stroke risk-related behaviors in a randomized controlled trial.

Conclusion: Stroke patients' unprompted recall of risk factors and performance of risk-related behaviors improved over time; readiness to change risk-related behaviors progressed for some behaviors. A brief educational intervention did not improve risk factor awareness or behavior change more than usual care.
PMID: 24722044 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation - April 17, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Eames S, Hoffmann TC, Phillips NF Tags: Top Stroke Rehabil Source Type: research