Stroke campaigns are educating about the need to immediately contact the emergency medical system if symptoms occur. Despite higher stroke rates among patients with diabetics and some migrant populations, there are few data about stroke knowledge in these groups. Despite this higher risk, there is little information about stroke knowledge among diabetics, and especially migrants suffering from diabetes. Stroke information campaigns are educating the public about the need to immediately contact the emergency medical system when symptoms occur.
However, migrants may not be reached by these strategies because of language or cultural barriers. Using a cross-sectional design researchers compared stroke knowledge among diabetics from Germany and Turkey, both living in the same neighbourhood in an industrialized area in Germany. Stroke knowledge among high risk patients and influence of…