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Table 2 Gender, academic qualification, practice duration, and location and awareness of and willingness to use commonly used stroke-scoring scalesa

From: Community physicians’ knowledge of secondary prevention after ischemic stroke: a questionnaire survey in Shanxi Province, China

 

Total

Gender

Highest academic qualification

 

Practice duration

Location of practicing

 

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

  1. TCM traditional Chinese medicine, NIHSS National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale, C-NIHSS Chinese version of NIHSS, SSS Scandinavian Stroke Scale, ABCD acronyms: A Age, B Blood pressure, C Clinical features, D Duration of symptoms, TIA transient ischemic attack
  2. *Chi-square test
  3. aValues are reported as percentages