Komolafe Morenikeji A, Olorunmoteni Oluwatosin E, Fehintola Funmito O
Department of Internal Medicine, Obafemi Awolowo University/Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Obafemi Awolowo University/Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2020 May;29(5):104757. doi: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2020.104757. Epub 2020 Mar 12.
Stroke education in adolescents has been established as an effective method of creating awareness about stroke, its warning signs and risk factors. It contributes to desired behavioural change in the adolescents as well as their parents. Thus, we aimed to determine the baseline knowledge of school attending adolescents about stroke and its risk factors as well as the effect of stroke education on their stroke awareness.
This study employed a quasi-experimental study design and was conducted in secondary schools in Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria. The schools were divided into intervention and control groups. We assessed the baseline knowledge of the students on stroke, its risk factors, warning signs, and ways of preventing it using a pre-tested structured questionnaire in both intervention and control groups. In the intervention group, health talks on stroke consisting of oral presentation and distribution of fliers were presented for 30 minutes in each selected school. Each school was visited 2 weeks after the health education intervention to assess their knowledge on stroke, its risk factors, and ways of preventing it. The control group was also visited after 2 weeks for a re-assessment of their stroke knowledge and the conduct of heath talk on other aspects of neurology such as sleep, epilepsy, etc. Results: A total of 1259 adolescents were studied with 661 in the intervention group and 598 in the control group. The mean age of the respondents was 13.56 ± 2.87 the intervention group and 13.38 ± 2.06 in the control group. There were higher mean scores on knowledge of stroke and its risk factors among the intervention group than seen in the control group after the stroke education.
Stroke education is an effective way of creating and maintaining stroke awareness among school-attending adolescents.
青少年中风教育已被确立为一种提高对中风、其警示信号和风险因素认识的有效方法。它有助于青少年及其父母产生期望的行为改变。因此，我们旨在确定在校青少年对中风及其风险因素的基线知识，以及中风教育对他们中风意识的影响。
本研究采用准实验研究设计，在尼日利亚奥孙州伊费的中学进行。学校被分为干预组和对照组。我们使用预先测试的结构化问卷，在干预组和对照组中评估学生对中风、其风险因素、警示信号以及预防方法的基线知识。在干预组中，在每所选定的学校进行了30分钟关于中风的健康讲座，包括口头陈述和发放传单。在健康教育干预两周后，走访每所学校以评估他们对中风、其风险因素和预防方法的知识。对照组在两周后也接受走访，以重新评估他们的中风知识，并就神经学的其他方面如睡眠、癫痫等进行健康讲座。结果：共研究了1259名青少年，干预组661名，对照组598名。干预组受访者的平均年龄为13.56±2.87岁，对照组为13.38±2.06岁。中风教育后，干预组在中风及其风险因素知识方面的平均得分高于对照组。
中风教育是在校青少年建立和维持中风意识的有效方式。
