A TIA or minor stroke creates an important opportunity for prevention.
Clinical teams must address multiple priorities within short and pressured encounters, and lifestyle conversations may consequently be brief, generic or difficult to connect with ongoing support.
Lifestyle Compass provides a structured way to bring the patient’s lifestyle context, prevention priorities and readiness for change into the clinical conversation.
Before or during the encounter
The patient completes a concise assessment of lifestyle strengths, relevant behaviours, barriers, priorities and readiness.
During the conversation
The clinician view highlights risk-relevant priorities and supports agreement of one realistic shared goal.
After the encounter
The goal can be documented, linked to appropriate support and followed up where this is included in the locally agreed pathway.
Initial feasibility work would examine acceptability, completion, consultation fit, goal-setting, signposting, follow-up and the quality of pathway documentation. It would not initially test clinical effectiveness.