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ArticleSystematic reviews2020

The awareness of women on prostate cancer: a mixed-methods systematic review protocol.

Ebenezer Wiafe, Kofi Boamah Mensah, Adwoa Bemah Boamah Mensah, Varsha Bangalee, Frasia Oosthuizen

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Article in Systematic reviews, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  2. Awareness of Prostate Cancer among the Sportsmen in the Republic of Serbia.Journal of environmental and public health · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Ebenezer WiafeUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. weben38@mail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-0496-5737
Kofi Boamah MensahUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
Adwoa Bemah Boamah MensahKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
Varsha BangaleeUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
Frasia OosthuizenUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundProstate cancer accounts for about 10% of cancers affecting and claiming the lives of men. Studies have reported that women are better than men in recognition of the early manifestations of various cancers. Besides, women have been recognized to show a profound interest in their partners' health and hence, make observations that men do not know. Several studies have reported on the knowledge gaps of prostate cancer among patients and the general population. It is vital to comprehensively review the available evidence and identify research gaps in our current understanding of knowledge of women on prostate cancer.

methodsA search of bibliographic databases, MEDLINE (EBSCOhost), CINAHL (EBSCOhost), PsycINFO (EBSCOhost), Web of Science, and EMBASE (Ovid) will be undertaken from January 1999 to December 2019. The search will be limited to studies published in the English language. Duplication of studies will be removed using the EndNote citation manager. After deduplication, citations will be screened independently by two authors according to prespecified criteria. Data extraction and quality assessment of the selected studies will be done independently by two authors. Meta-analytic methods will be used where appropriate. The convergent segregated method of synthesis will be adopted in this review. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: Primary data collection will not be involved in this study, hence formal ethical clearance will not be needed. The results of the study will be presented through a peer-reviewed journal and conference presentation. PATIENT AND PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT: Patients or the public will not be engaged in the conduct of this study.

trial registrationOpen Science Framework (OSF) registration DOI: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/EYHF2.

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