Chronic Disease

Research on chronic disease discussed by scientists at University of South Australia

Published in Blood Weekly, June 11th, 2009

According to recent research published in the International Journal of Stroke, "Self-management is seen as a primary mechanism to support the optimization of care for people with chronic diseases such as symptomatic vascular disease. There are no established and evidence-based stroke-specific chronic disease self-management programs."

"Our aim is to evaluate whether a stroke-specific program is safe and feasible as part of a Phase II randomized-controlled clinical trial. Stroke survivors are recruited from a variety of sources including: hospital stroke services, local paper advertisements, Stroke South Australia newsletter (volunteer peer support organization),...

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Source: Blood Weekly (2009-06-11)

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