Background and Purpose¡XStroke has been a leading cause of death for decades in Taiwan. The mortality and morbidity may be reduced if people have the correct knowledge about stroke. This pilot study aimed to examine the effectiveness of an educational program aiming to increase college students¡¦ knowledge of cause of stroke, risk factors, stroke warning signs, and action needed (call 119) when a stroke is suspected.
Methods¡XTwo classes (A and B) of college students was used as convenience sample. The program evaluation consisted of a pretest, a 50-minute educational intervention, immediate posttest, and a 12-week follow-up. Class A was tested via close-ended questionnaire while class B open-ended one. Repeated measure one-way ANOVA was used to compare mean score of three tests. Comparisons of mean score between male and female participants of each evaluation point were assessed by t-tests. Stata 7.0 for Windows was used for the analysis at significance level of 0.05.
Results¡XA total of 138 college students participated the educational program. Response rate was 90% and 91% in class A and B respectively with mean age of 22 years. In pretest, all students in class A were able to recognize ≥1 risk factors (RF), ≥1 warning signs (WS). In class B, 5% were not able answer one RS and 24% couldn¡¦t name one WS. Of the students, 18-20% in both classes did not recognize the brain as the affected organ in stroke. Mean score improved significantly after the intervention (p<0.001), and dropped after 12 weeks (p<0.001). The effects of gender toward knowledge level were non-significant except posttest in class B (p<0.05).
Conclusions¡XOur study showed that college students¡¦ knowledge of stroke could be improved by educational program. However, learning effects faded away with time. Our data showed that gender was irrelevant to learning effects. Policy makers may consider improving public knowledge of stroke through properly designated educational program.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0719108-023052 |
| Date | 19 July 2008 |
| Creators | Lin, Huei-chia |
| Contributors | Ying-Chun Li, Lih-Lian Hwang, Shu-Chuan Jennifer Yeh, Mei-Chiun Tseng |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0719108-023052 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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