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Article: Readiness to change and brief educational interventions: successful strategies to stroke risk.
- Article from:
- Journal of Neuroscience Nursing
- Article date:
- August 1, 2003
- Author:
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Abstract: Despite recent advances in stroke treatment and prevention, identifying effective educational interventions for "at-risk" groups that will help reduce their stroke risk and improve the speed of seeking treatment remains of paramount importance. The purpose of this pilot study was to determine whether a brief educational intervention, tailored to the patient's stage of readiness to change, could affect the initiation and achievement of stroke risk-reducing behaviors for this at-risk population. The study also explored potential demographic and medical confounders that could influence behavioral and knowledge goal achievement. Three groups of 20 participants, each ...