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Center; which is located on Oahu, the largest hospital in Hawaii. questions with a focus on nine major subjects related to strokes. presented as concerns; lack of stroke knowledge or awareness, need for stroke education, and fear of stroke recurrence due to inefficient education while hospitalized. This study suggests a need for increased continuity and communication with health-care providers to address the evolving educational and practical needs of stroke patients and their caregivers after hospital discharge. Hawaiian Islands made it difficult to expand to other areas within the Hawaiian Islands, limitations of participants due to language barriers due to the caregivers and patients being required to speak English in order to participate in this study, which could have possibly overlooked certain populations due to the narrative properties of the qualitative study. ended
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