A number of studies regarding knowledge of stroke symptoms and risk factors, both in the general population and in stroke patients, were conducted in the 1990s and early 2000s, at the beginning of the thrombolysis era. A weakness of many of these studies is the use of close-ended questions instead of open-ended questions that may have resulted in better performance regarding knowledge compared with what patients might actually recall when experiencing a stroke. The respondents’ knowledge of stroke in most of the previous studies was generally poor,4-11 especially among those at highest risk.4,6,7,12 One would expect that increased media focus on public health, people’s increased awareness of their own health, and widespread access to health information would have improved knowledge and awareness of stroke. Recent studies, however, indicate that knowledge of stroke is still inadequate.13-16