The impact of the UK 'Act FAST' stroke awareness campaign: Content analysis of patients, witness and primary care clinicians' perceptions

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Dombrowski, Stephan U ^a,b   Mackintosh, Joan E ^a   Sniehotta, Falko F ^a,c   Araujo Soares, Vera ^a   Rodgers, Helen ^a   Thomson, Richard G ^a   Murtagh, Madeleine J ^a,d   Ford, Gary A ^a,e   Eccles, Martin P ^a   White, Martin ^a,c  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Awareness; Delay; Mass media campaign; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STROKE; UNITED KINGDOM; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AWARENESS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MASS MEDIA; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STROKE;

EID: 84884993093     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-915     Document Type: Article

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