About the PULSE (Partners Using Linked Strategies Effectively) Study

It is well-known that spouses have a tremendous potential to shape each other’s physical activity and eating behaviour, thereby influencing stroke risk for everyone involved. We aim to better understand how partners navigate their health behaviors and shape healthy life styles post stroke. With your help, we’d like to learn about the resources that explain how stroke survivors and their spouses can engage in healthful behaviours and maintain them when faced with obstacles.

Meet recent PULSE participants and learn first-hand about their experiences taking part in this study:

Read our feature in the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute newsletter here to learn more about the study.

More about The Health and Adult Development Lab:

The Health and Adult Development Lab is a health psychology laboratory located at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver). We conduct research that examines the influences of social relationships and motivational processes on well-being and health across the adult lifespan. We examine how health trajectories influence and are influenced by close others such as spouses.

To learn more about our lab and other projects we have conducted/are conducting at the moment, you can visit our website by clicking here.

Who we are:

This study is funded by a grant from the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

The interdisciplinary team of investigators involve Dr. Christiane Hoppmann (Health Psychology), Dr. Maureen Ashe (Physiotherapy), Dr. Rachel Murphy (Nutrition), Dr. Kenneth Madden (Geriatrics), Dr. Wolfgang Linden (Clinical Psychology), and Ms. Deborah Rusch (Knowledge Translation).