ID | Study | Intervention type | Focus | Duration of intervention | Setting |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Boden-Albala 2010 [44] | • Two sessions about stroke education | Awareness | 2 brief sessions within 3 weeks of stroke/TIA onset | Hospital or home |
2 | Chan 2008 [45] | • Stroke education program (video) | Awareness | 12 minutes | Emergency department |
3 | Covington 2010 [46] | • PowerPoint presentation | Equal focus | Single, brief session | • Churches |
 |  | • Educational materials to take home |  |  | • Group homes |
 |  | • Blood pressure screening and referral |  |  | • Community centers, and community organizations" |
4 | Dromerick 2011 [47] | • Stroke navigators visiting patients | Equal focus | Advice sessions over one year | Home |
5 | • Short slide presentation | Equal focus | 1 to 2 hours | Community centres and community organizations | |
 |  | • Stroke risk assessment screening |  |  | |
 |  | • Advice/discussion. |  |  | |
6 | Duraski 2007 [50] | • Focus group session | Awareness | 30 to 60 minutes | Unknown |
 |  | • Slide presentation |  |  |  |
 |  | • Interactive questions/answers |  |  |  |
7 | Frank 2008 [51] | • Cardiovascular diseases and stroke education sessions | Prevention/risk factors | About 2 hours for each intervention | African-American churches |
 |  | • Screening |  |  |  |
 |  | • Integration with Bible study, individual counselling, healthy food |  |  |  |
8 | Kalenderian 2009 [53] | • Educational sessions, distribution of educational package to "ambassadors" | Prevention/risk factors | Various, depending on specific interventions | Faith-based institutions, churches |
 |  | • Educational activities by ambassadors in churches, e.g. by brochures, videos, posters. |  |  |  |
9 | Kleindorfer 2008 [54] | • Trained beauticians educated their customers | Awareness | A session at the beauty salon | Beauty salons |
 |  | • Distribution of stroke-related study packets |  |  |  |
10 | Miller 2003 [55] | • Education about knowledge of stroke symptoms and modifiable stroke risk factors. | Equal focus | 1-hour initial educational intervention:15’ follow-up | Medical practice (some follow-ups at home). |
11 | Morgenstern 2007 [56]; Gonzales 2007 [52]; Mullen Conley 2010 [29] | • Lessons to children about stroke signs and symptoms and to improve skills, self-efficacy and behaviour. | Awareness | • Four 50-minute classes each year for three years | School and home |
 |  | • Parents were taught about stroke by their children as homework assignment |  | • homework with parents at home. |  |
12 | Villablanca 2009 [57] | • Clinical lectures | Prevention/risk factors | 12-14 counselling sessions, (only a minority on stroke awareness) | Various faith-based, academic and non-academic sites |
 |  | • Health demonstrations, video presentations, personal testimonies, medical screenings |  |  |  |
13 | Williams 2008 [58] | • "Culturally and age-appropriate music and dance to enhance an interactive didactic curriculum including the FAST mnemonic" | Awareness | 1-hour sessions over 3 consecutive days | School |
14 | Williams 2012 [59] | • Stroke communication intervention | Equal focus | Short (not quantified) | Home |
 |  | • Shared completion of stroke-related homework between children and parents |  |  |  |
15 | Williamson 2009 [60] | • "Educational session | Prevention/risk factors | Interventions over two years | A rural African American church |
 |  | • Health screenings and weight watchers program |  |  |  |
 |  | • Integration with faith-based activities |  |  |  |