Original ArticleEffects of Stroke Education Using an Animated Cartoon and a Manga on Elementary School Children
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Study Setting and Population
Suita City is located in the urban area of Osaka prefecture in Japan and has around 350,000 residents. Almost all the residents are Asian. The research was in partnership with the Suita City Board of Education (SCBE) and included all the public elementary schools (20,000 pupils) and junior high schools (9000 students) in Suita City. The present study was a preliminary examination for investigating the utility of the stroke education program for fifth-grade children in 2 public elementary
Results
In February 2012, 249 school children of 7 classes from 2 public elementary schools received the stroke lesson. Of these, 30 students of 1 class were excluded from the analyses because the last assessment test at 3 months was not conducted because of concern about 1 student who lost his or her father because of stroke 2 weeks before the test.
Figure 1 shows the composite score of stroke symptoms (left panel, maximum score of 12) and risk factors (right panel, maximum score of 14) before,
Discussion
We showed that the stroke lessongiven by the general schoolteachers using our teaching materials, an animated cartoon and a Manga, was feasible and improved the stroke knowledge immediately after the stroke lesson. However, the proportion of adequate action of “calling EMS” on recognition of signs or symptoms of stroke returned to the level of the baseline at 3 months after the lesson.
For junior high school students, stroke lesson given by a schoolteacher or a stroke neurologist using our
Acknowledgments
We express our deepest gratitude to Professor Keiko Takemiya (Department of Manga, Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan), all the members of the Suita City Board of Education, and the teachers in public elementary and junior high school in Suita City. We also thank Dr Haruko Yamamoto (National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center) for her advice about ethical issues.
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This study was supported by the Intramural Research Fund of the National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center (22-4-1).