Brazilian Version of an Intervention to Support Healthy Lifestyle Adoption Post-stroke - iVIDAVC

A non‐probabilistic sample of 24 participants will be recruited from the community inBelo Horizonte, Brazil. Recruitment strategies will include the distribution of printedflyers in strategic locations, contact with health professionals and researchers, socialmedia and telephone communication, outreach through stroke support groups, disseminationthrough university and organizational websites and social media, and invitations toparticipants from a university extension program. All participants will be informed aboutthe study procedures and, upon agreeing to participate, will provide written informedconsent. The intervention and outcome assessments will be conducted in a universitylaboratory setting. A trained researcher blinded to group allocation will be responsiblefor collecting sociodemographic, anthropometric, and clinical data at baseline,immediately after the intervention, and four weeks after the intervention. Twoindependent examiners, also blinded to group allocation, will enter the data intostatistical software and verify the presence of missing or inconsistent values. Originalpaper forms will be stored securely, and electronic files will be accessible only to theresearch team. All participants will be assigned a unique identification code to ensureanonymity. Statistical analyses will be conducted by an independent researcher who willbe blinded to group allocation.