Deans' stroke musings: Effectiveness of Psychoeducational Intervention in Promoting Post-Stroke Self-Care: A Systematic Literature Review

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Effectiveness of Psychoeducational Intervention in Promoting Post-Stroke Self-Care: A Systematic Literature Review

ABSOLUTELY FUCKING USELESS! NO protocol created or referenced where to find it. My god, is everyone in stroke blitheringly stupid?

Effectiveness of Psychoeducational Intervention in Promoting Post-Stroke Self-Care: A Systematic Literature Review

Provisionally accepted

Victor Nhime Nungulo^1*

Mauer Gonçalves²

Adriana Pereira Henriques³

Cristina Lavareda Baixinho³

¹Nursing Research, Innovation and Development Centre of Lisbon (CIDNUR), Lisbon, Portugal, José Eduardo dos Santos University, Huambo, Angola
²Centre for Advanced Studies in Medical Education and Training, Faculty of Medicine, Agostinho Neto Uni-versity, Luanda, Angola, Faculty of Medicine, Agostinho Neto University, Luanda, Angola
³Nursing Research, Innovation and Development Centre of Lisbon (CIDNUR), Lisbon, Portugal., School of Nursing, Lisbon, Portugal, Lisboa, Portugal

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon.

Background:

Stroke is one of the main causes of morbidity and mortality in the world, and sequelae include physical disability, difficulties with independence for self-care, and loss of mobility and quality of life. Objective: this study was to summarize the evidence about the effectiveness of psychoeducational interventions in promoting post-stroke selfcare.

Methods:

A systematic literature review was carried out per the Cochrane recommendations. The following databases were included: MEDLINE (via PubMed), Scopus, CINAHL Complete, Cochrane, JBI, and B-on. The study as performed between December 2023 and February 2024, according to the eligibility criteria, by two independent reviewers. The bibliographic sample was evaluated for risk of bias using RoB 2, only clinical trials were included.

Results: The seven articles selected, from 2019 to 2024 evaluated education to promote care and self-care; rehabilitation programmes with physical exercise; management of stress, depression and anxiety; and symptom management. Interventions relating to awareness and knowledge about post-stroke, development of healthy behavior and lifestyle reinforcement of self-care capacity.

Conclusions:

This literature review found that in some studies the implementation of psychoeducational interventions improves the knowledge, independence and self-care of this population and their families, although not all of them were equally effective. The results of the articles reinforce that psychoeducational interventions may increase functional independence and the ability to carry out activities of daily living and improve health and quality of life.