Table 2.

Profiles of narrators for women (n=100) and men (n=91) patients.

Narrator characteristics		Patients, n (%)		P
		Women	Men
Narrator				.72
	First-person	52 (52.0)	45 (49.5)
	Third-person	48 (48.0)	46 (51.5)
Third-person witness to stroke				.55
	Yes	19 (39.6)	21 (45.7)
	No	29 (60.4)	25 (54.3)
Third-person relationship-relative				.008
	Adult child	24 (60.0)	15 (39.5)
	Other	10 (25.0)	5 (13.2)
	Spouse	6 (15.0)	18 (47.4)
Third-person relationship-nonrelative				n/a
	Friend	2 (25.0)	3 (37.5)
	Stranger	6 (75.0)	5 (62.5)