碩士 / 國立中山大學 / 企業管理學系研究所 / 96 / Background and Purpose—Stroke 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—Two 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—A 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—Our 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:TW/096NSYS5121090 |
| Date | January 2008 |
| Creators | Huei-chia Lin, 林慧佳 |
| Contributors | Lih-Lian Hwang, Mei-Chiun Tseng, 黃麗蓮, 曾美君 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 39 |
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