Department of Nursing, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Tabuk University, Saudi Arabia.
Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science, Tabuk University, Saudi Arabia.
Asian Pac J Cancer Prev. 2021 Jun 1;22(6):1813-1819. doi: 10.31557/APJCP.2021.22.6.1813.
To assess the level of cancer awareness and the relationship between the awareness of common cancer symptoms and risk factors and the sample's sociodemographic profile.
A community-based cross-sectional study conducted in Tabuk city, a convenient sample of 675 participants completed a questionnaire about common factors causing cancer and symptoms related to cancer. Descriptive statistics and chi-squared analysis were used to measure sample characteristics and their association with knowledge of cancer risk factors and symptoms.
Level of education and family history were significantly related to awareness of cancer risk factors (P= 0.017) and (P= 0.048), respectively. Factors were significantly associated with awareness of cancer symptoms include Gender (P=0.000), nationality (P=0.013), and undergoing regular cancer screening tests (0.008). Internet was the primary source of information about cancer and related significantly to knowledge about cancer symptoms(P=0.000) and risk factors(P=0.00). More than half of the sample scored poorly for knowledge of both cancer risk factors (58.7%) and symptoms (66.2%) in terms of the overall level of cancer awareness. Smoking and heredity were the most identifiable cancer risk factors, and unexplained pain and weight loss were identified by the majority of study participants.
The level of community knowledge requires further investigation, and more cancer awareness programs need to be conducted. People could be encouraged to use reliable sources of information to obtain accurate cancer information.
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评估癌症意识水平，以及对常见癌症症状和危险因素的认识与样本社会人口统计学特征之间的关系。
这是一项在塔布克市进行的基于社区的横断面研究，采用方便抽样法，共纳入了 675 名参与者，他们完成了一份关于导致癌症的常见因素和与癌症相关症状的问卷。采用描述性统计和卡方分析来衡量样本特征及其与癌症危险因素和症状知识的关联。
教育程度和家族史与对癌症危险因素的认识（P=0.017）和（P=0.048）显著相关。与对癌症症状的认识显著相关的因素包括性别（P=0.000）、国籍（P=0.013）和定期进行癌症筛查测试（P=0.008）。互联网是获取癌症及相关信息的主要来源，与对癌症症状（P=0.000）和危险因素（P=0.00）的认识显著相关。超过一半的样本在癌症总体认识水平上对癌症危险因素（58.7%）和症状（66.2%）的知识得分较低。吸烟和遗传是最容易识别的癌症危险因素，而大多数研究参与者都能识别出不明原因的疼痛和体重减轻。
社区知识水平需要进一步调查，需要开展更多的癌症意识项目。应鼓励人们利用可靠的信息来源获取准确的癌症信息。
