Jamir Pitton Rissardo1, Ana Letícia Fornari Caprara2, Ana Lucia Cervi Prado2. 1. Cidade Universitária Bairro Camobi Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil. Electronic address: jamirrissardo@gmail.com. 2. Universidade Federal de Santa Maria Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Santa Maria, Brazil.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: This community-based and cross-sectional study was performed in a Brazilian city and aimed to evaluate stroke literacy. METHODS: A stroke knowledge survey was administered to passersby of a public square from December 2015 to October 2016, in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul. Convenience sampling was performed. RESULTS: A total of 633 respondents completed the survey. Of the respondents, 33% knew the meaning of "AVC"; 29.5% incorrectly localized stroke in the heart. Any warning sign of stroke (open-ended question) could not be remembered by 50.7% of the respondents; individuals with a higher level of schooling (>7 years of education) and those who localized stroke in the brain were more likely to call an emergency in the case of a stroke (adjusted odds ratio [OR] 1.040, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.004-1.078 for years of schooling; adjusted OR 1.542, 95% CI 1.102-2.156 for replying "yes" to brain as the organ affected in stroke). CONCLUSIONS: Brazilian public knowledge about stroke is still scarce, even in a population with levels of formal education above the national average or in a city where annual promotion of Stroke Awareness Campaigns have taken place for almost a decade. Thus, it might be necessary to design different informative strategies targeted to our study's population to improve stroke campaigns in Brazil. In Brazil, increasing awareness of stroke focused on stroke prevention and recognition of its warning signs should be a national priority in public health as the access to stroke treatment remains limited.
BACKGROUND: This community-based and cross-sectional study was performed in a Brazilian city and aimed to evaluate stroke literacy. METHODS: A stroke knowledge survey was administered to passersby of a public square from December 2015 to October 2016, in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul. Convenience sampling was performed. RESULTS: A total of 633 respondents completed the survey. Of the respondents, 33% knew the meaning of "AVC"; 29.5% incorrectly localized stroke in the heart. Any warning sign of stroke (open-ended question) could not be remembered by 50.7% of the respondents; individuals with a higher level of schooling (>7 years of education) and those who localized stroke in the brain were more likely to call an emergency in the case of a stroke (adjusted odds ratio [OR] 1.040, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.004-1.078 for years of schooling; adjusted OR 1.542, 95% CI 1.102-2.156 for replying "yes" to brain as the organ affected in stroke). CONCLUSIONS: Brazilian public knowledge about stroke is still scarce, even in a population with levels of formal education above the national average or in a city where annual promotion of Stroke Awareness Campaigns have taken place for almost a decade. Thus, it might be necessary to design different informative strategies targeted to our study's population to improve stroke campaigns in Brazil. In Brazil, increasing awareness of stroke focused on stroke prevention and recognition of its warning signs should be a national priority in public health as the access to stroke treatment remains limited.
Authors: Gláucia Maria Moraes de Oliveira; Luisa Campos Caldeira Brant; Carisi Anne Polanczyk; Deborah Carvalho Malta; Andreia Biolo; Bruno Ramos Nascimento; Maria de Fatima Marinho de Souza; Andrea Rocha De Lorenzo; Antonio Aurélio de Paiva Fagundes Júnior; Beatriz D Schaan; Fábio Morato de Castilho; Fernando Henpin Yue Cesena; Gabriel Porto Soares; Gesner Francisco Xavier Junior; Jose Augusto Soares Barreto Filho; Luiz Guilherme Passaglia; Marcelo Martins Pinto Filho; M Julia Machline-Carrion; Marcio Sommer Bittencourt; Octavio M Pontes Neto; Paolo Blanco Villela; Renato Azeredo Teixeira; Roney Orismar Sampaio; Thomaz A Gaziano; Pablo Perel; Gregory A Roth; Antonio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro Journal: Arq Bras Cardiol Date: 2022-01 Impact factor: 2.000
Authors: Gláucia Maria Moraes de Oliveira; Luisa Campos Caldeira Brant; Carisi Anne Polanczyk; Andreia Biolo; Bruno Ramos Nascimento; Deborah Carvalho Malta; Maria de Fatima Marinho de Souza; Gabriel Porto Soares; Gesner Francisco Xavier Junior; M Julia Machline-Carrion; Marcio Sommer Bittencourt; Octavio M Pontes Neto; Odilson Marcos Silvestre; Renato Azeredo Teixeira; Roney Orismar Sampaio; Thomaz A Gaziano; Gregory A Roth; Antonio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro Journal: Arq Bras Cardiol Date: 2020-09 Impact factor: 2.667