To explore supportive care needs of patients with stable stroke in the acute phase and provide guidance for effective supportive care through mixed-methods.

A mixed-method study with convergent parallel design was used. A convenient sampling method was used to select neurological inpatients for questionnaire survey. At the same time, a purposive sampling was used to conduct semi-structured interviews with 15 stroke patients.

A total of 176 valid questionnaires were collected, and the average score of supportive care needs were 2.17±0.37, The top 3 were disease-related information needs (2.75 ± 0.40), daily life care needs (2.28 ± 0.51), and social support needs (2.26 ± 0.28). Knowing the causes of stroke ranked first in each entry. The theme of qualitative interviews included: assisting daily activities, management of impaired functions, early functional rehabilitation, disease-related knowledge, psychosocial support, and discharge guidance.

Stroke patients have rich and high-level supportive care needs, and provide corresponding information needs based on patient needs. Implement early secondary prevention guidance to prevent stroke recurrence; cooperate with multidisciplinary teams to provide early rehabilitation, reduce functional impairment; timely identify negative emotions of patients, and jointly provide family with patients psychological support. Implement a case management model to promote full-course care for stroke patients.

Stroke; Patients; Supportive care needs; Mixed-methods study