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.
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.
Mullen Conley
Kathleen
K
Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA.
Juhl Majersik
Jennifer
J
Gonzales
Nicole R
NR
Maddox
Katherine E
KE
Pary
Jennifer K
JK
Brown
Devin L
DL
Moyé
Lemuel A
LA
Espinosa
Nina
N
Grotta
James C
JC
Morgenstern
Lewis B
LB
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