NCT03038685

A Personalized, Digital Coaching Program After Stroke

A Personalized, Digital Coaching Program With Teleconsultancy to Improve Secondary Prevention After Ischemic Stroke: a Pilot, Multicenter Pre/Post Study.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 148 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Antwerp · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The Belgian Stroke Council initiated a project to improve risk factor control and medication adherence in ischemic stroke patients by developing an individualized in-hospital initiated and post- discharge, digital coaching program addition to standard practice (strokecoach.be).

Detailed description

The overall aim of this project is to further improve subacute and chronic stroke care in the Belgian context with main focus on the patients' quality of life, stroke recurrence and secondary cardiovascular prevention. Main focuses are on patient-empowerment, shared-decision making and health literacy, as these items are linked with better therapeutic adherence and self-care for chronic diseases. In case of a positive result, implementation of this individualized chronic stroke care program executed by a personal stroke coach, initiated during hospitalization and using a web-based intervention program, can easily be unrolled in other Belgian stroke units. The program can be cost-effective if better clinical outcome, stroke recurrence rates, number of in-hospital consultations, number of rehospitalisations are reduced. This will be evaluated in a in-depth healt-economic analysis.

Conditions

• Stroke, Ischemic

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Strokecoach.be - digital coaching program for stroke patients	The stroke coach gives patients two education sessions during hospitalization (risk factor management, review of medications and clinical evolution). During these sessions, study participation will be proposed. Eligibility will partially depend on their historical use of the internet and e-mail. The aim is to have the digital platform personalized for his/her individual needs, risk factors and remaining neurologic signs/symptoms. Tips and tricks to deal with lifestyle modification will be delivered on regular basis. Meanwhile, patients will be asked to complete on a pre-specified frequency their data regarding their cardiovascular risk profile. Additionally, participants will be contacted at 0.5-1-2 and 6 months by phone calls or videoconsultancy. To standardize, an adapted, digital version of the standardized WSO Post-Stroke Checklist shall be used as a decision-support flowchart. A report of the consultation will be derived after the videoconsultancy.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-05-01
• Primary completion: 2018-02-28
• Completion: 2018-02-28
• First posted: 2017-02-01
• Last updated: 2021-01-14

Locations

4 sites across 1 country: Belgium