NCT01812421

A Nested Case-control Study on the Secondary Prevention of Ischemic Stroke and TIA by Hypertension Health Education Protocol (HHEP): The Post-Stroke Preventive Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 500 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Patients with a diagnosis of ischemic stroke or TIA (ISTIA), who are treated at hospital are asked to participate in our pre specified hypertension health education protocol (HHEP) after discharge from our hospital.HHEP was used as secondary prevention treatments of stroke and cardiovascular diseases. HHEP consists of several items such as controlling the patient's hypertension level, monitoring the adherece of antihypertensive agents, reducing risk factors of hytertension like tobacco smoking, obesity, and motivating the patient to physical activity and to a healthy diet. Patients will receive visits by a study nurse with the aim of supervising, monitoring, and recording the adherence of HHEP. The patients will be classified as different adherence level at the end of the study according to their adherence condition. This study is aimed at testing the hypothesis that controlling hypertension and its risk factors was more effective than those do not receive HHEP in reducing the recurrence of stroke and cardiovascular diseases.

Conditions

• To Investigate the Relationship Between the Adherence of HHEP After ISTIA and Stroke Recurrence or Cardiovascular Events.

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Hypertension Health Education Protocol (HHEP)

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-04-01
• Primary completion: 2015-04-01
• First posted: 2013-03-18
• Last updated: 2013-04-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China