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Stroke Foundation FAST campaigns

Also: FAST (Face, Arm, Speech, Time) · National Stroke Foundation Stroke Week campaigns

Australia's National Stroke Foundation stroke awareness campaigns, run each Stroke Week since 2004, using the FAST message (Face, Arm, Speech, Time) from 2006 and adding 'call an ambulance' in 2007.

Years
2004–now
Country
Australia
Topic
CardiovascularStroke
Asks people to
RecognizeSeek help
Strategy
Coined termSimple instruction
Channel
PrintRadioTV
Audience
AdultsOlder adults

Evidence

ObservationalPositive

Melbourne ambulance data 1999-2009 (Bray 2011): stroke share of dispatches rose from 2.1% to 3.0%, with October jumps only after the call-an-ambulance message was added. Unprompted recall of 2 or more stroke signs rose from 20% to 53% in 2004-2010 (Bray 2013), and national ambulance calls rose with campaigns (2015).

Sponsor (who paid)

  • National Stroke Foundation (Stroke Foundation) NGO, creator

Credits (who made it)

Not recorded yet.

Related campaigns

Sources

  1. Bray JE et al. Stroke public awareness campaigns have increased ambulance dispatches for stroke in Melbourne, Australia. Stroke 2011;42(8):2154-7 evaluation · 2011 · DOI 10.1161/STROKEAHA.110.612036 · PMID 21757668
  2. Bray JE et al. Australian public's awareness of stroke warning signs improves after national multimedia campaigns. Stroke 2013;44(12):3540-3 evaluation · 2013 · DOI 10.1161/STROKEAHA.113.002987 · PMID 24135926
  3. Bray JE et al. Effect of public awareness campaigns on calls to ambulance across Australia. Stroke 2015;46(5):1377-80 evaluation · 2015 · DOI 10.1161/STROKEAHA.114.008515 · PMID 25828236
  4. Bray JE et al. Temporal Trends in Emergency Medical Services and General Practitioner Use for Acute Stroke After Australian Public Education Campaigns. Stroke 2018;49(12):3078-3080 evaluation · 2018 · DOI 10.1161/STROKEAHA.118.023263 · PMID 30571429

Research notes

Created 2026-10-22 by literature mining (PubMed/OpenAlex); evidence level, outcome and findings are paraphrased from the evaluation abstracts, full texts not read. No credits: no page naming an agency was checked.

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