Effect of Educational Guidelines on Compliance with Lifestyle Modifications among Patients with Recurrence Cerebrovascular Stroke

Abstract

Stroke is a common, serious, and disabling global health-care problem and patients must compliance to life style modifications for preventing potential complications as recurrence of cerebrovascular stroke. Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of educational guidelines on compliance to life style modification for cerebral vascular stroke patients through the following1- assess patients' level of knowledge and compliance with life style modifications among patients with recurrent, 2- plan and implement educational guidelines for patients with cerebrovascular stroke3- Evaluate effect of education guidelines on compliances for patients' with cerebrovascular stroke. Research hyposis: educational guidelines will affect positively on compliances with life style modifications among patients with recurrent cerebrovascular stroke. Design: A quasi experimental design. Setting: stroke out patients' clinic at Ain Shams University Hospitals/ Egypt. Subject: A purposive sample of 70 adult patients, and divided in two group study and control group with recurrence cerebrovascular stroke. Tools: 1) Stroke patients' structured interview questionnaire. 2) Patients' compliance with life style modifications assessment tool. Results: there were highly statistically significant relation between knowledge and compliance to life style modifications between study and control group. Conclusions: the educational guidelines affect positively on total level of patients' compliance and their level of knowledge of the study group. Recommendation: Establishing cerebrovascular stroke educational program to provide knowledge about recurrent cerebrovascular stroke and its associated life style modifications.