Table 1.
Patterns of learned basic stroke knowledge and a stroke mnemonic across the test sequence
| Stroke Localization (Expected value 25%) |
Stroke is a “brain attack” (Expected value 25%) |
F.A.S.T. Mnemonic (Expected value 0) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-test | Post-test | Pre-test | Post-test | Pre-test | Post-test | |
| Overall (N=75 pretest, 71 post-test) |
38 (50.7) | 60 (84.5) ‡ | 17 (22.7) | 45 (63.4)‡ | 2(2.7) | 29(41) ‡ |
| Age | ||||||
| 18-35 | 11 (61.1) | 15 (88.2) | 5 (27.8) | 9 (52.9)* | 0 (0) | 8 (47.1) † |
| 36-45 | 15 (51.7) | 24 (85.7)* | 7 (24.1) | 1 (78.6) ‡ | 1 (3.4) | 12 (42.9) † |
| ≥46 | 11 (45.8) | 18 (81.8)* | 5 (20.8) | 12 (54.5) † | 1 (4.2) | 8 (36.4) † |
| Sex | ||||||
| Female | 28 (54.9) | 45 (88.2) ‡ | 11 (21.6) | 34 (66.7) ‡ | 2 (3.9) | 22 (43.1) ‡ |
| Male | 10 (47.6) | 13 (76.5) | 6 (28.6) | 9 (52.9)* | 0 (0) | 6 (35.3)* |
| Race-ethnicity | ||||||
| Black | 25 (51.0) | 43 (87.8) ‡ | 12 (24.5) | 33 (67.3) ‡ | 2 (4.1) | 20 (40.8) ‡ |
| Hispanic | 8 (50.0) | 11 (84.6) | 2 (12.5) | 6 (46.2)* | 0 (0) | 6 (46.2)* |
| Education | ||||||
| Less than high school | 7 (35.0) | 13 (81.3)* | 5 (25.0) | 6 (37.5) | 3 (18.8) | 12 (60.0) |
| HS grad/GED/some college |
15 (51.6) | 26 (83.9)† | 5 (16.1) | 20 (64.5) ‡ | 2 (6.5) | 17 (54.8) ‡ |
| College graduate | 14 (70.0)b | 18 (90.0)* | 7 (35.0) | 16 (80.0) †b | 0 (0) | 8 (40.0) † |
‡
p<0.001
†
p<0.01
*
p<0.05, All comparisons are pre-test v. post-test for each individual question, by row unless otherwise noted.
a
p<0.01
b
p<0.05, test for significance by column (for each questions) using Pearson χ2test (or test of linear relationship for education or age) relative to stroke knowledge question