Development of educational support programs for mild stroke patients to prevent recurrence

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24659993
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Clinical nursing
• Research Institution: Sapporo Medical University (2013-2015); Tenshi College (2012)
• Principal Investigator: TORIYA MEGUMI 札幌医科大学, 保健医療学部, 講師 (00305921)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): HASEGAWA Masumi 札幌医科大学, 保健医療学部, 教授 (80315522) ; TAKI Tatsuko 天使大学, 看護栄養学部・看護学科, 教授 (40188107)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 軽症脳卒中 / 再発予防

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study examines educational support programs for patients with mild stroke undertaken to prevent recurrence. First, mixed methods were used to investigate the conditions of patients with mild stroke, and we gained an understanding of health behaviors, quality of life issues, difficulties in daily life, and methods of coping among patients after the discharge. Second, the problems involving intervention to prevent stroke recurrence were surveyed by reviewing literature related to intervention studies for stroke recurrence prevention. The findings suggest that effective programs enable care providers to convince patients of the necessity of stroke recurrence prevention before the discharge, enable patients to maintain behavioral changes after the discharge, and enable care providers to provide feedback to patients using peer counselling and self-monitoring. In future studies, we propose to develop a program based on these findings and evaluate the effectiveness in clinical settings.

Free Research Field

看護学・高齢看護学・老年看護学