ArticleOpen medicine (Warsaw, Poland)2018
Is Awareness Enough to Bring Patients to Colorectal Screening?
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- Improving Colon Cancer Prevention in Poland. A Long Way Off.Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe aim of the study was to assess the awareness of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients about CRC screening methods and to investigate the relationship between awareness, socio-demographic characteristics and the stage in which patients with CRC are diagnosed.
methodsThe observational cross-sectional study included 275 CRC patients admitted between 2014 and 2016 to two surgical clinics from Tîrgu Mureş, Romania. Study variables were collected via face-to-face interview and from patients' observation sheets.
resultsOnly 41.5% of the patients heard about cancer screening and 6.5% about specific CRC screening methods. Mass-media was the major source of information (85.1%) followed to a much lesser extent (14.9%) by family, friends, and colleagues. Health professionals did not contribute at all to informing patients about screening methods. Awareness about screening methods was statistically associated with the patients' residence, age, and educational achievement, but not with the stage of CRC.
conclusionThe level of awareness of CRC screening methods was very low among the CRC patients included in the study but it could not predict the stage in which malignancy was diagnosed, suggesting that awareness alone is not enough to bring patients to undergo early CDC screening procedures.
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