关键词: 卒中; 健康教育; 社区; 知晓率

Abstract: Objective To survey the public knowledge of stroke in Shanghai community and to explore therole of health education in community on stroke-related knowledge.Methods The stroke knowledge questionnaire was conducted in this study to investigate theawareness of warning signs and risk factors of stroke in 390 residents who volunteer to join thisstudy in Hongkou District, Shanghai. Community health education has been carried out in theform of lecture and brochure after the first survey. Three to five months later, the re-survey wereconducted on the same residents.Results ①The awareness percentage of the ten stroke risk factors ranges from 2% to 80%respectively, the awareness percentage of the five stroke warning signs are ranges from 51% to63% respectively. ②After health education, the survey revealed that the proportion of residentswho were able to recognize≥2, ≥3, ≥4 risk factors(both P ＜0.0001) and≥3, ≥4(P =0.0025,P =0.0227) early symptoms of stroke have significantly improved compared with the first survey.Conclusions At present, residents in Shanghai lack public knowledge of stroke. Community healtheducation improves the cognitive level of stroke knowledge.

Key words: Stroke; Health education; Community