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Table 3.

Main results of quantitative studies

			Patient and public awareness of the symptoms of stroke/TIA			Patient and public response to the symptoms of stroke/TIA				Beliefs and attitudes about the diagnosis, early treatment and consequences of stroke
			Associated with brain	Aware of one symptom	Recognised stroke/TIA	Time to seek medical help	Sought medical help as soon as possible	First medical contact GP	Patient or bystander called ambulance	Symptoms are serious	Always an emergency	Correctly identified 8 possible consequences	Stroke is risk factor for further stroke

	Author	n =	%	%	%	Median	%	%	%	%	%	%

Public	Parahoo[19]	892	60.3	92.2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	-
	Morgan[20]	139	90	81	-	-	-	-	-	-	96	-	-
	Carrol[16]	40	-	87.5	-	-	-	-	-	-	92.3	-	-
	Shah[23]	103	-	-	65^a	-	-	-	-	79^a	-	-	-

At risk	Gupta[16]	410	86	82	-	-	-		-	-	-	-	5%
	Carrol[18]	40	-	92.5	-	-	-		-	-	86	-	5%

Stroke/TIA patients	Carrol[18]	40	-	-	40	30 min (max 6 days)	-	80	17.5	-	-	-	0%
	Giles[22]	241	-	-	42.2	-	44.4	86.7	-	-	-	-	-
	Lasserson [14]	768	-	-	-	-	-	75%^c 71%^d	-	-	-	-	-

	Shah[23]	103	-	-	41	-	-	-	-	53	-	-	-
	Salisbury[15]	739	-	-	56^b	15 min (max 5 days)	68	56	41	-	-	-	-
	Harraf[13]	739	-	-	-	-	-	50	43	-	-	-	-
	Harbison[17]	487	-	-	-	-	-	44	37	-	-	-	-

^abystanders

^bpatients or those with the patient at the onset of symptoms

^cTIA

^dMinor stroke