ABSTRACT NUMBER: ESOC2026A1180 ADAPTABLE HIGH SCHOOL STROKE EDUCATION LEADS TO KNOWLEDGE GAINS REGARDLESS OF FORMAT: A FIVE-SCHOOL PILOT
Samuel Namian, Rebecca Dibiase, Celia Fung, Michael Rafferty, Molly Sullivan, Jennifer Shea, Rajiv Narula, Chauncey Evers, Safa Hakim Elnazer, Rachel Forman · 2026
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Samuel Namian and co-authors report a 2026 conference pilot study teaching stroke facts to high school students in five schools. Teens can carry health facts to peers and family, yet schools rarely use them that way. Formats ranged from an eight-session class course to club meetings and one large assembly.
More than one hundred students in Connecticut and New York took a fifteen-point test before and after the lessons. Mean scores rose from under half to three quarters right after the teaching. Scores held near seventy percent a month or more later. Every school began below half, showing poor base knowledge. Follow-up answers were missing for many students, and the team plans a larger run to compare formats.
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| CREATOR | Samuel Namian, Rebecca Dibiase, Celia Fung, Michael Rafferty, Molly Sullivan, Jennifer Shea, Rajiv Narula, Chauncey Evers, Safa Hakim Elnazer, Rachel Forman |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |