{"id":13627,"date":"2018-04-20T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=13627"},"modified":"2018-04-20T00:22:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T05:22:47","slug":"hip-hop-music-teaches-children-parents-to-recognize-stroke-and-act-quickly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2018\/04\/20\/hip-hop-music-teaches-children-parents-to-recognize-stroke-and-act-quickly\/","title":{"rendered":"Hip Hop music teaches Children, Parents to recognize Stroke and act quickly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stroke Journal Report<\/h2>\n

\"AmericanDallas, TX<\/strong> – An intervention that uses hip hop music with stroke<\/a> education lyrics increased stroke awareness for economically-disadvantaged, minority children and their parents, according to new research in the American Heart Association\u2019s journal Stroke.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe lack of stroke recognition, especially among blacks, results in dangerous delays in treatment,\u201d said Olajide Williams, M.D., M.S., study author and associate professor of neurology at Columbia University Medical Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital. \u201cBecause of those delays, only a quarter of all stroke patients arrive at the hospital within the ideal time for clot-busting treatment.\u201d  <\/p>\n

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The \u201cHip Hop Stroke\u201d initiative uses hip hop music lyrics to effectively educate economically-disadvantaged, minority children and parents about stroke. (American Heart Association)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Stroke education is important even for children because simply calling 9-1-1 immediately when stroke symptoms start could increase the rate of optimal stroke treatment by 24 percent. Usually a witness makes the 9-1-1 call \u2013 something even a child can do.<\/p>\n

Other campaigns to improve stroke awareness have been limited by the high costs of advertising, lack of cultural tailoring and low penetration into ethnic minority populations. Ultimately, the desired effect of calling 9-1-1 has dissipated once the media campaign ended.<\/p>\n

Researchers studying more than 3,000 4th through 6th graders from 22 public schools in New York City and a group of 1,144 of their parents found \u201cHip Hop Stroke\u201d, a three-hour multimedia stroke awareness intervention, increased optimal stroke knowledge from 2 percent of children before the intervention to 57 percent right after.<\/p>\n

Three months later, 24 percent of children retained that knowledge.<\/p>\n

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While only 3 percent of parents could identify all stroke symptoms in the FAST<\/a> acronym before the intervention, 20 percent could immediately after and 17 percent could three months later.<\/p>\n

Four of the children put in practice what they learned in the intervention and called 911 for real-life stroke symptoms, including one who overruled a parent\u2019s suggestion to wait and see.<\/p>\n

[320left]The Hip Hop Stroke<\/a> program, according to Williams, is available and free to U.S. communities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe program\u2019s culturally-tailored multimedia presentation is particularly effective among minority youth or other groups among whom Hip Hop music is popular,\u201d Williams said. \u201cOne unique aspect of the program is that the children who receive the program in school are used as \u2018transmission vectors\u2019 of stroke information to their parents and grandparents at home. Our trial showed that this is an effective strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Co-authors are Ellyn Leighton-Hermann Quinn, Ph.D.; Jeanne Teresi, Ed.D., Ph.D.; Joseph P. Eimicke, M.S.; Jian Kong, M.S.; Gbenga Ogedegbe, M.D., M.P.H.; and James Noble, M.D., M.S. Authors reported no conflicts of interest.<\/p>\n

The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke funded the study.<\/p>\n

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