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The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery

Table 2 Source of knowledge of cerebro-vascular stroke among urban and rural participants

From: Public knowledge of warning signs and risk factors of cerebro-vascular stroke in Ismailia Governorate, Egypt

 

Total

Urban

Rural

No. = 720

No. = 360

No. = 360

Seeing someone with stroke

455(63.2%)

256 (71.1%)**

199 (55.2%)

Public media

335 (46.5%)

248 (68.9%)**

87 (24.1%)

Physicians

39 (5.4%)

36 (10%)*

3 (0.8%)

From study in the school

9 (1.25%)

4 (1.1%)

5 (1.4%)

Do not know

90 (12.5%)

24 (6.7%)

66 (18.3%)§

  1. χ2 test, (*) significant and (**) highly significant in comparison to rural, (§) significant in comparison to urban
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