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Table 5 Knowledge of the action to be taken and the preferred time to go to the hospital when seeing a patient with 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

Action to be taken

 Direct to hospital

619 (86.0%)

344 (95.6%)**

275 (76.4%)

 Go to neurologist

327 (45.4%)

231 (64.2%)**

96 (26.7%)

 Call GP

201 (27.9%)

24 (6.7%)

177 (49.2%)§

 Call pharmacist

172 (23.9%)

8 (2.2%)

164 (45.6%)§

 Call religious person

106 (14.7%)

4 (1.1%)

102 (28.3%)§

 Call herbalist

61 (8.5%)

4 (1.1%)

57 (15.8%)§

 Did not know

5 (0.7%)

0 (0%)

5 (1.4%)

Time to go to the hospital

 Within 4 h

455 (63.2%)

352 (97.8%)**

103 (28.6%)

 After 4 h

143 (19.9%)

0 (0%)

143(39.7%)§

 Did not know

122(16.9%)

8 (2.2%)

114 (31.7%)§

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