Opportunities and challenges in secondary stroke prevention: a mixed methods study.

CONCLUSIONS: These findings highlight the ongoing challenges with achieving risk factor control after stroke and the potential to utilise health information technology to engage stroke survivors in self-management of their risk factors. Implications for rehabilitation Clinicians should be knowledgeable of the challenges that stroke survivors face in managing their risk factors after stroke and the role that they can play in providing tailored education. BP continues to be poorly controlled after stroke and there is opportunity for improvement. Stroke survivors and their families are receptive to using health information technology to support their risk factor control. Rehabilitation clinicians have an opportunity to incorporate different aspects of health information technology into their practice to support self-management of risk factors. PMID: 30041552 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research