Stroke 112: A Universal Stroke Awareness Program to Reduce Language and Response Barriers.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

To improve stroke awareness and reduce life-threatening prehospital delays worldwide, a universal stroke educational program is needed. To meet this unmet need, we developed a universal program without language barriers and tested its acceptance in Taiwan, where Chinese is the native language.

Methods

Stroke 112 was developed using the universal emergency phone number, 112. The numbers imply an emergency and correspond to the 3 stroke recognition signs used in FAST (Face, Arm, Speech, and Time): 1 uneven face (crooked mouth); 1 weak arm (arm weakness); 2 incoherent lips (slurred speech). An online survey was used to determine the acceptance of the Stroke 112 program compared with that of FAST in Chinese. The surveys were delivered using SurveyMonkey (h

SUBMITTER: Zhao J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6034704 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature