informed about the possible warning signals and symptoms of a cerebral vascular accident. This makes education of high-risk individuals, in fact any individuals over the age of 65, appear to be essential. To determine the importance of education to CVA patients and their families, several articles in medical databases were located, read and compared. This was done by doing a search in the medical/health database on "patient education" and "CVA." Other tries included "education," "stroke," and "prevention," "prevention" and "stroke," and "education" and "stroke." The results were not helpful. When switching to Google Scholar, and using the search words "risk, education, stroke" a number of appropriate studies came up, which should have come up with the database search. Many of these articles, however, were not stroke specific, but about heart attacks and education. The articles specifically regarding education and strokes primarily concerned the lack of education and knowledge, not the impact of prevention or education on CVAs. Many of these articles were also from the late 1990s rather than 21st century.
             For example, an article by Dunkle (1998) stated that "the greatest opportunities for effective stroke prevention and treatment lie in controlling the risk factors for stroke and decreasing the time between the onset of stroke and hospital arrival." This is based on public knowledge of the signs and the risk factors. As a result, the researchers surveyed 1,880 Cincinnati and Kentucky households with the 29 questions eliciting:
             (1) stroke warning signs, risk factors, and information sources; (2) respondent's risk factors for stroke; and (3) demographics. Fifty-seven percent of the respondents correctly listed 1 warning sign, 28 percent listed 2 or more signs, and 8 percent listed 3. Age was significantly associated wit...