Journal of clinical nursing
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Randomized Controlled Trial
A quasi-experimental study on a community-based stroke prevention programme for clients with minor stroke.
The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a community-based stroke prevention programme in (1) improving knowledge about stroke; (2) improving self-health-monitoring practice; (3) maintaining behavioural changes when adopting a healthy lifestyle for stroke prevention. ⋯ Effective educational intervention by professional nurses helped clients integrate their learned knowledge into their real-life practice. This empowering, that is, the taking of responsibility by clients for their own self-care management on a daily basis, affirms that patient education has moved beyond teaching people facts.