ReviewAmerican journal of men's health2018
Males' Awareness of Benign Testicular Disorders: An Integrative Review.
Review in American journal of men's health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 25 citations in OpenAlex.
- Cancer awareness among community pharmacist: a systematic review.BMC cancer · 2018Pooled it
- Promoting men's awareness, self-examination, and help-seeking for testicular disorders: a systematic review of interventions.HRB open research · 2018Pooled it
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- Codesign and Launch of 'On the Ball': An Inclusive Community-Based 'Testicular Awareness' Campaign.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2024Article
- Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Among Guardians of Boys Toward Concealed Penis.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2024Article
- Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice Toward Varicocele in Patients with Varicoceles: A Cross-Sectional Study in Chinese Patients.International journal of general medicine · 2024Article
- The effect of an educational animation on knowledge of testicular health and fertility of adolescents.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2023Article
- Infertility in Men: Advances towards a Comprehensive and Integrative Strategy for Precision Theranostics.Cells · 2022Review
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- Knowledge, Attitude and Practices Regarding Benign Testicular Disorders in the Educated Young Men of Pakistan.Cureus · 2017Article
- A Call to Action to Review the USPSTF's Recommendation for Testicular Self-Examination.American journal of men's healthArticle
- Editorial Comment: Presentation delay, misdiagnosis, inter-hospital transfer times and surgical outcomes in testicular torsion: analysis of statewide case series from central Brazil.International braz j urol : official journal of the Brazilian Society of UrologyArticle
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Abstract
Disorders that affect the testes can range from painless and benign to debilitating and life threatening. Despite the availability of literature on the etiology, diagnosis, and treatment of benign testicular disorders (BTD), very little is known about men's awareness of these conditions. The aim of this review was to extract and analyze evidence from studies that explored males' awareness of BTD. Four e-databases (CINAHL, MEDLINE, PsychINFO, and PubMed) were thoroughly searched and four articles met the review inclusion criteria. The quality of the included studies was appraised and data were extracted and cross-checked using a standardized data extraction table. It was determined that participants lacked education about testicular self-examination and scrotal signs and symptoms which contributed to their lack of awareness of BTD. Help seeking in the event of scrotal abnormalities was suboptimal which is alarming given the acuteness of some BTD such as testicular torsion. Individuals who are at risk for health disparities were underrepresented in the reviewed literature. Findings from this review highlight the need to address barriers to BTD knowledge and help seeking. This could be achieved through making use of past interventions that succeeded in increasing men's awareness of testicular cancer such as university campaigns and mass media. From a practical standpoint, clinicians must be encouraged to educate young men about BTD. This could be attained through tailoring creative educational interventions that are sensitive to the needs of individuals who are at risk for health disparities.
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