A time series evaluation of the FAST National Stroke Awareness Campaign in England.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

In February 2009, the Department of Health in England launched the Face, Arm, Speech, and Time (FAST) mass media campaign, to raise public awareness of stroke symptoms and the need for an emergency response. We aimed to evaluate the impact of three consecutive phases of FAST using population-level measures of behaviour in England.

Methods

Interrupted time series (May 2007 to February 2011) assessed the impact of the campaign on: access to a national stroke charity's information resources (Stroke Association [SA]); emergency hospital admissions with a primary diagnosis of stroke (Hospital Episode Statistics for England); and thrombolysis activity from centres in England contributing data to the Safe Implementation of Thrombolysis in Stroke UK database.

Results

SUBMITTER: Flynn D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4131890 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature