# Effect of family empowerment health education on health behavior of young stroke patients based on a cross-theoretical model

## TL;DR

This study shows that using a cross-theoretical model for family empowerment health education improves health behaviors and blood pressure control in young stroke patients.

## Contribution

The novelty lies in applying a cross-theoretical model to family empowerment health education for young stroke patients.

## Key findings

- The experimental group showed significantly higher healthy behavior scores than the control group.
- Behavioral stage changes were better in the experimental group compared to the control group.
- Primary caregivers in the experimental group had more positive feelings than those in the control group.

## Abstract

This paper aimed to explore the effects of cross-theoretical model-based family empowerment health education on health behavior and blood pressure control in young stroke patients.

A total of 142 young stroke patients who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria, were admitted to the neurosurgery department of a Tertiary Grade A hospital in Tianjin. In detail, there were 71 cases each in the control group and experimental group. The control group was given routine health education intervention, while the experimental group was received family empowerment health education intervention according to the proposed cross-theoretical model. These two groups' health behaviors, behavioral stage changes, and blood pressure of the patients in the above-mentioned two groups before and after the intervention were compared systemically.

The score of healthy behavior in the experimental group was higher than that in the control group (P < 0.05), the behavioral stage change in the experimental group was better than that in the control group (P < 0.05), and the positive feeling of the primary caregivers of young stroke patients in the experimental group was much better than that in the control group (P < 0.01).

Cross-theoretical model-based family empowerment health education could effectively improve patient health behavior and promote patients' behavioral change, and increase the positive perception of their primary caregivers.