Improving stroke recovery in Maori and Pacific people and their families

A randomised controlled study to measure the effectiveness of an educational video compared to a goal setting exercise and to a control (written pamphlet) in the treatment of stroke to improve stroke recovery for Maori and Pacific people and their families.

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12606000017527

Acronym

MAPSS

Enrollment

183

Registered

2006-01-11

Start date

2006-03-15

Completion date

2009-09-30

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Interventions

Randomised controlled trial (multi centre). Participants randomised to receive one of three interventions or a control. Intervention A - Educational video lasting 80 minutes Intervention B - goal setting exercise lasting 90 minutes Intervention C - both the video and the goal setting exercise lasting 170 minutes

Study design

Allocation

Randomised controlled trial

Intervention model

Parallel

Primary purpose

Treatment

Masking

Blinded (masking used)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Stroke using World Health Organistaion definition 'rapidly developing symptoms and/or signs of focal, and at times global, loss of cerebral function, with symptoms lasting longer than 24 hours or leading to death with no apparent cause other than that of vascualr originSelf idenitfied ethnicity as Maori, Samoan, Tongan, Cook Island Maori, Niuean, Fijian.

Exclusion criteria

Can not give informed consentLiving within institution after strokeSubarachnoid haemorrhage.

Outcome results