Is awareness enough to bring patients to colorectal screening?
| العنوان: | Is awareness enough to bring patients to colorectal screening? |
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| المؤلفون: | Calin Molnar, Valentin Nădășan, Zoltán Ábrám, Márton Dénes, Șerban Bancu, Cristian Borz |
| المصدر: | Open Medicine Open Medicine, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 528-533 (2018) |
| بيانات النشر: | Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2018. |
| سنة النشر: | 2018 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | medicine.medical_specialty, Colorectal cancer, Malignancy, Educational level, Colorectal cancer screening, 03 medical and health sciences, Sources of learning about screening, 0302 clinical medicine, Cancer screening, medicine, Screening method, 030212 general & internal medicine, Stage (cooking), neoplasms, Screening procedures, Romania, Crc screening, business.industry, Regular Article, General Medicine, medicine.disease, digestive system diseases, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Family medicine, Medicine, Observational study, business |
| الوصف: | Background The 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. Methods The 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. Results Only 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. Conclusion The 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. |
| تدمد: | 2391-5463 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::0f6a4a4a777193199f9528a3602d6c9cTest https://doi.org/10.1515/med-2018-0077Test |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....0f6a4a4a777193199f9528a3602d6c9c |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 23915463 |
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