title: Kids Identifying and Defeating Stroke (KIDS): development and implementation of a multiethnic health education intervention to increase stroke awareness among middle school students and their parents.
abstract: The Kids Identifying and Defeating Stroke (KIDS) project is a 3-year prospective, randomized, controlled, multiethnic school-based intervention study. Project goals include increasing knowledge of stroke signs and treatment and intention to immediately call 911 among Mexican American (MA) and non-Hispanic White (NHW) middle school students and their parents. This article describes the design, implementation, and interim evaluation of this theory-based intervention. Intervention students received a culturally appropriate stroke education program divided into four 50-minute classes each year during the sixth, seventh, and eighth grades. Each class session also included a homework assignment that involved the students' parents or other adult partners. Interim-test results indicate that this educational intervention was successful in improving students' stroke symptom and treatment knowledge and intent to call 911 upon witnessing a stroke compared with controls. The authors conclude that this school-based educational intervention to reduce delay time to hospital arrival for stroke shows early promise.
authors.affiliation: Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA.
authors.forename: Kathleen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mullen Conley
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Juhl Majersik
authors.forename: Nicole R
authors.initials: NR
authors.lastname: Gonzales
authors.forename: Katherine E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Maddox
authors.forename: Jennifer K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Pary
authors.forename: Devin L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: Lemuel A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Moyé
authors.forename: Nina
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Espinosa
authors.forename: James C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Grotta
authors.forename: Lewis B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Morgenstern
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001519:Behavior; D054521:Cultural Competency; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017058:Mexican Americans; D011446:Prospective Studies; D020377:Self Efficacy; D020521:Stroke; D014505:Urban Population; D044465:White People