Knowledge of Signs and Symptoms of Heart Attack and Stroke among Singapore Residents

Table 2

Descriptive statistics of heart attack and stroke knowledge scores of survey respondents.

	Heart attack knowledge score	Stroke knowledge score
Score category^#
Low score	42.2%	42.9%
High score	57.8%	57.1%
Range of knowledge scores	0–8	0–10
Mean knowledge scores	5.0	6.8
Standard deviation	2.4	2.9

#Correct answers received one point and were calculated separately using the following scale.
For the heart attack knowledge scores: low scores = 0–4 points or ≤50% and high scores = 5–8 points or >50%. For the stroke knowledge scores: low scores = 0–6 points or ≤50% and high scores = 7–10 points or >50%.