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ArticleJournal of public health in Africa2023

Awareness, knowledge, and factors that influenced the uptake of screening tests for prostate cancer among men aged 40 and older in Ido-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria.

Kayode Rasaq Adewoye, Shuaib Kayode Aremu, Waheed Atilade Adegbiji, Chijioke Cosmas Achebe

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Article in Journal of public health in Africa, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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4citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Prostate cancer in Nigeria: a scoping review and meta-analysis of current evidence on process indicators and interventions.European journal of surgical oncology : the journal of the European Society of Surgical Oncology and the British Association of Surgical Oncology · 2025
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  3. Article
  4. Prostate Cancer Management in Nigeria: A mini-review of up-to-date treatment options.Nigerian medical journal : journal of the Nigeria Medical Association
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Kayode Rasaq AdewoyeCommunity Medicine Department, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State.
Shuaib Kayode AremuDepartment of ENT, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State.
Waheed Atilade AdegbijiDepartment of ENT, Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State.
Chijioke Cosmas AchebeDepartment of Radiology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria.
Afe Babalola University · NGEkiti State University · NG

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Despite being the second most common and deadliest cancer in males, prostate cancer could go unnoticed in the early stages. Prevention programs have been set in place to help in the early detection and reduction of mortality rates in developed countries. Objective: The aim of this study was to determine awareness, knowledge, and the uptake of prostate cancer screening tests. Another objective was to identify the factors that determine the uptake of prostate cancer screening among men living in Ido-Ekiti. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among males aged 40 and above living in Ido-Ekiti in Ido-Osi local government area, Ekiti State, Nigeria. The sample size of 380 respondents was obtained using Leslie Fisher's formula. Results: The study revealed that the majority of the correspondents are aware of prostate cancer (57.9%). More than two-thirds of the respondents have poor knowledge of prostate cancer and the screening test (74.4%), with a median knowledge score of 30%. The uptake of prostate cancer screening tests was very low among the respondents (18.2%). Conclusion: Despite the high level of awareness of prostate cancer disease among the respondents, the majority have poor knowledge of the disease and the screening test. There was a low uptake of prostate cancer screening tests among the respondents.

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awarenessknowledgemen older than 40 yearsprostate cancerscreening test

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PMID37347069
PMCPMC10280235
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