Stroke prevention and therapy awareness in a large sample of high school students: results of an educational campaign in the Northern-Western Italy

Discussion and conclusionWe demonstrated that our educational campaign obtained an important improvement of stroke awareness in our sample. Girl students, Lyceum students, and less young students attained significant better knowledge improvement. We hope that the enhanced awareness might induce a more frequent diffusion of prevention strategies, an increased capacity of recognizing onset stroke symptoms with shortening of patients ’ presentation in the emergency room of the hospitals when they can undergo reperfusion treatments.
Source: Neurological Sciences - Category: Neurology Source Type: research