NCT04332458

Motivators and Barriers for Physical Activity in Patients With Minor Stroke

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Herlev Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of this study is to investigate motivators and barriers for physical activity in patients discharged from hospital for a minor stroke or TIA. The study has a qualitative research design and will be conducted by focus group interviews.

Detailed description

Little is known about motivators and barriers for physical activity after hospital discharge for patients with a minor stroke or TIA. These patients have few and temporary symptoms and are therefore discharged early from the hospital or seen in a outpatient TIA clinic. Standard treatment are preventive medication and advice on self-managed lifestyle changes. Occurrence of one ischemic stroke or TIA predisposes to further ischemic strokes and patients are at risk of developing cognitive deficits or vascular dementia over time unless multiple preventive measures are taken including physical activity. The purpose is to investigate motivators and barriers for physical activity after hospital discharge by focus-group interviewing this potential fragile group of patients. The research team want to facilitate the patients to be physically active and thereby prevent a recurrent stroke and slow the progression of vascular diseases.

Conditions

• Stroke, Ischemic

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	A focus group interview	this is a qualitative study using focus group interviewing.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-06-01
• Primary completion: 2021-03-21
• Completion: 2022-01-16
• First posted: 2020-04-02
• Last updated: 2022-04-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark