Stroke patients delay medical treatment with the analysis of the results of health education

• Main Authors: Chin-Ling Chen, 陳金鈴
• Other Authors: Bor-Wen Cheng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/85651230218772046284

碩士 === 國立雲林科技大學 === 健康產業管理研究所碩士班 === 101 === Stroke is a major disease which threatens the quality of life of patients seriously and increases the cost of medical care. Thrombolytic therapy has been proven to be beneficial to acute ischemic stroke patients. Nevertheless, it can be administrated only within 3-4.5 hours after symptoms onset. Therefore, in order to treating stroke patients in a timely manner, it needs that the patient or their family identifies the warning signs quickly and activates the emergency medical service system immediately, that the emergency medical system dispatches their personnel fast, performs pre-hospital notification, and delivers the patient to the stroke center, and that the patient was diagnosed and treated rapidly after arriving at the stroke center. According to the local research, there are only 29.4% of stroke patients arriving at emergency department within 3 hours after stroke attack in Taiwan and thus few patients with acute ischemic stroke can receive thrombolytic therapy. Therefore, our study used questionnaires interviews (before and after the test administered health education center) to collect data and patient medical information gathering,and aims to know the reasons why the stroke patients in Taiwan delay in seeking stroke care. In addition, we also perform the education program of stroke to patients admitted because of stroke and their family. After ducation program, those patients and family are asked to complete another form of e questionnaire to understand the effect of the education program.