Stroke Health and Risk Education (SHARE)

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Stroke, Hypertension

In brief

Stroke is a disease with tremendous individual, family, and societal impact. It is the number one cause of adult disability and third leading cause of death in the United States. Between now and the year 2050, the cost of stroke in the United States will exceed 2 trillion dollars. There is a tremendous ethnic disparity with respect to stroke in the United States. Mexican Americans are much more likely to have a stroke compared with European Americans. In Mexican Americans strokes occur at younger ages, are more likely to recur and have the same severity as they do in European Americans. Mexican Americans are the overwhelming largest sub-population of Hispanic Americans, the nation's largest minority group. This proposal, a scientifically-based rigorous behavioral education intervention trial, seeks to aggressively prevent stroke, especially in Mexican Americans. Faith and family are strong components of Mexican American culture. This project works with these positive fundamental elements in order to affect stroke prevention. This project will take place in Nueces County, Texas. The project investigators have worked in this community for the past 14 years and have published extensively regarding the stroke health disparity in this stable, non-immigrant community of Mexican Americans and European Americans. We have established a strong partnership with the Catholic Diocese of Corpus Christi and assembled a team with tremendous experience at successful health behavior intervention research. Together, a proposal has been crafted that will directly speak to aggressive stroke risk factor reduction in Mexican Americans and European Americans in this representative United States community. The significance of such research is tremendous. As the Mexican American population grows and ages, the stroke impact will be felt with greater and greater intensity. Now is the time to develop aggressive, scientifically tested interventions to limit the burden of this disease on this important segment of the United States population, and to reduce the costs of this disease to the country as a whole, in keeping with the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) goal to "identify culturally appropriate, effective stroke prevention programs for nationwide implementation in minority communities" by FY2010.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01378780

Run by

University of Michigan

People needed

760

Starts

2011-05-01

Expected to finish

2013-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-04-28

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Participants will be European American or Mexican American residents of Corpus Christi, Texas area and member of a Catholic Church participating in the study
• greater than 18 years of age
• speak English or Spanish
• willing to provide a mailing address and home telephone number to study personnel at the time of consent
• participants must be able to identify a friend or family partner who is also willing to participate in the study
• to avoid second level clustering, only two individuals per household (the first to enroll) will be eligible

You may not qualify if…

• Known pregnancy is an exclusion criterion.

Where it is running

• Corpus Christi Catholic Churches — Corpus Christi, Texas, United States

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