Abramson-Chen Emily, Khan Omar, Raman Tuhina
Department of Family and Community Medicine at Christiana Care Health System in Newark, DE, USA.
Del Med J. 2012 Oct;84(10):311-7.
There is no standardized survey tool to capture adult respondents' knowledge of risks for lung cancer. We sought to develop such a tool and developed a test survey for this purpose. We designed and implemented this survey to identify knowledge of issues relating to smoking and lung cancer among patients of primary care practices in New Castle County, Delaware. Our study demonstrated the successful piloting of a standardized tool to assess patient knowledge of lung cancer risks. Most respondents (71.6 percent) were knowledgeable of the cluster relating to association between smoking and lung cancer; fewer (38.6 percent) were knowledgeable about the relationship between smoking cessation and lung cancer. The areas relating to lung cancer diagnosis and treatment identified the greatest gaps in understanding, with only 15.8 percent displaying a moderate level of knowledge. Implications for care and for policy are discussed.
目前尚无标准化的调查工具来获取成年受访者对肺癌风险的了解情况。我们试图开发这样一种工具，并为此编制了一份测试调查问卷。我们设计并实施了该调查，以确定特拉华州纽卡斯尔县基层医疗诊所患者对吸烟与肺癌相关问题的了解情况。我们的研究表明，一种用于评估患者对肺癌风险了解程度的标准化工具试点成功。大多数受访者（71.6%）了解与吸烟和肺癌关联相关的一组知识；了解戒烟与肺癌关系的受访者较少（38.6%）。与肺癌诊断和治疗相关的领域显示出理解上的最大差距，只有15.8%的受访者表现出中等程度的了解。文中还讨论了对医疗护理和政策的影响。
