A study of the relationship between the quality of lifestyle counselling and later adherence to the lifestyle changes based on patients with stroke and TIA

Objective:To identify associations between lifestyle counselling quality and adherence to lifestyle changes during the 12-month period after discharge.Setting:Neurology unit.Subjects:Stroke and transient ischaemic attack (TIA) patients (n = 98).Design:Longitudinal explorative study that utilized data initially collected for quasi-experimental study.Main measures:The exploratory measures of Counselling Quality were collected at the hospital on the day of discharge between January 2010 and October 2011, and the outcome measures of Adherence to Lifestyle Change and clinical values were collected 3, 6 and 12 months after discharge.Results:There were significant associations between the exploratory and outcome measures over time. Three of the counselling quality parameters, counselling interaction, advantages and resources, were found to be significantly associated with adherence to lifestyle change. In particular, counselling interactiveness was positively associated with physical activity at 3 (B = 0.31, SD ...