NCT07578259Not yet recruiting
SURA'A Campaign for Stroke Awareness in Primary Health Care Centers
"Effectiveness of a One-Week Multifaceted SURA'A Consultation-Based Campaign on Stroke Awareness and Intention to Seek Help Among Adults in Primary Health Care Centers
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 4 Jun 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a one-week multifaceted Stroke Urgency Recognition, and Action Awareness (SURA'A) consultation-based campaign in increasing stroke awareness and the intention to seek emergency medical help among adults. The research will be conducted at primary health care centers to determine if this specific educational approach can improve the community's response to stroke symptoms.
- Status (registry)
- Not yet recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 350 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 4 May 2026
- Start date
- 10 Jun 2026
- Primary completion date
- 20 Jan 2027
- Lead sponsor
- University of Baghdad
- Diseases
- Stroke
- NCT number
- NCT07578259
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 350
- From 10 Jun 2026 to the primary completion date, 20 Jan 2027
- No sites listed in no country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Have a previous confirmed diagnosis of stroke (to avoid bias in baseline awareness).
Other illness
- Severe cognitive impairment
- Have diagnosed dementia, severe mental illness, or cognitive impairment that prevents reliable responses.
- Communication barriers
- o Cannot communicate in Arabic or has severe hearing/speech impairment that prevents participation.
Other
- Participants will be excluded if they:
- Health professionals o Physicians, nurses, paramedics, or students of medical and health colleges (to avoid overestimation of awareness).
- Temporary visitors
- o Non-residents or individuals visiting Diwaniyah temporarily.
- Refusal or withdrawal o Decline to participate or withdraw at any stage of the study.
Who the study is looking for
- Participants will be eligible if they:
- Age
- Adults aged ≥18 years residing in Diwaniyah.
- Residence o Living in Diwaniyah communities for at least 6 academic months prior to the study.
- Access to Primary Health Centers (PHCs)
- Attending in selected primary health centers where the SURA'A campaign will be implemented.
- Cognitive ability
- o Able to understand and answer the survey questions in Arabic.
- Consent o Willing to provide informed consent to participate in pre- and post- awareness intervention assessments.
- Availability for follow-up
- o Agree to participate in both baseline (pre-campaign) and follow-up (post-campaign) assessments.
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
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