Effect of Intervention to Improve Stroke Recognition

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Conditions studied: Stroke

In brief

Despite the abundance of stroke education materials available, studies continue to reveal severe deficiencies in stroke literacy (knowledge of symptoms, urgent action, and prevention measures). Expensive mass media stroke education campaigns are not sustainable for this purpose, particularly in economically disadvantaged populations. Instead, the investigators propose to intervene in school classrooms with children aged 9 to 11 years, to teach the five cardinal stroke symptoms, the correct course of action when they occur, and to highlight the potential therapeutic benefit of early hospital arrival, with the intent that the children will then educate their parents. To help accomplish this, the investigators have developed a program called Hip Hop Stroke (HHS), which is comprised of rap songs and two animated musical cartoons that incorporate stroke knowledge.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01497886

Run by

Columbia University

People needed

4614

Starts

2011-03-01

Expected to finish

2016-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2020-07-15

Who can join

Age: 7 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• 4th-6th grade children and their parents in selected elementary public schools in the same geographical region/community with similar socioeconomic status (SES) and Ethnic composition.

You may not qualify if…

• School located in Harlem, New York.

Where it is running

• Columbia University Medical Center — New York, New York, United States

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