Total | Gender | Highest academic qualification | Practice duration | Location of practicing | ||||||||||||
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N = 1910 | Male | Female | P value* | Junior college degree | Bachelor’s degree | Master’s degree | TCM practitioners with no college education | P value* | <10 years | 10–20 years | >20 years | P value* | Rural | Urban | P value* | |
(n = 780) | (n = 1,130) | (n = 1,346) | (n = 455) | (n = 15) | (n = 94) | (n = 650) | (n = 917) | (n = 343) | (n = 454) | (n = 1,456) | ||||||
Awareness of NIHSS | 39.8 | 42.2 | 38.4 | 0.120 | 38.3 | 43.0 | 50.0 | 32.0 | 0.171 | 37.8 | 38.7 | 40.9 | 00.643 | 36.8 | 40.7 | 0.192 |
Awareness of C-NIHSS | 55.0 | 56.3 | 54.1 | 0.363 | 54.1 | 59.3 | 60.0 | 41.7 | 0.021 | 51.7 | 55.9 | 53.7 | 0.370 | 47.5 | 56.9 | 0.001 |
Use of NIHSS/C-NIHSS in stroke cases | 45.4 | 46.0 | 45.0 | 0.721 | 46.3 | 41.7 | 50 | 41.1 | 0.390 | 41.8 | 45.7 | 50.0 | 0.113 | 50.0 | 44.3 | 0.098 |
Awareness of SSS | 20.0 | 21.4 | 19.2 | 0.244 | 18.0 | 24.5 | 13.3 | 19.0 | 0.033 | 18.9 | 16.1 | 22.1 | 0.041 | 21.6 | 19.6 | 0.404 |
Awareness of ABCD score | 46.9 | 46.3 | 47.4 | 0.640 | 45.1 | 51.4 | 33.3 | 39.2 | 0.052 | 47.5 | 45.8 | 45.2 | 0.770 | 43.0 | 48.0 | 0.085 |
Use of ABCD score in TIA cases | 18.9 | 19.8 | 18.4 | 0.730 | 18.8 | 17.2 | 23.1 | 13.3 | <0.001 | 17.8 | 18.0 | 19.7 | 0.550 | 18.7 | 19.0 | 0.072 |