School of Nursing Department of Community Health Nursing, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
School of Nursing and Midwifery, The Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, 65004, Tanzania.
BMC Med Educ. 2024 Jun 3;24(1):614. doi: 10.1186/s12909-024-05497-w.
The cancer burden in Africa is on the rise. A Cancer Training Course on screening, prevention, care, and community education is crucial for addressing a wide range of cancer health issues. When appropriately educated healthcare providers on cancer provide care, patient care improves, and healthcare costs decrease. However, in Tanzania, doctors and nurses receive little or no training in primary cancer care in their bachelor's program.
This study assessed the need and acceptability of a cancer training course for nursing and medical doctor students at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
This study was a cross-sectional parallel mixed method study during the 3-month follow-up within the larger study on sexual health training for health professionals. The study was a randomized controlled (RCT), single-blind, parallel trial of sexual health training versus a waitlist control among health students at MUHAS in Tanzania. Descriptive analysis was performed to analyze the participants' demographic information, need, and acceptability of the cancer training courseto determine the frequencies and percentages of their distribution between disciplines. In addition, inductive thematic analysis was performed for the qualitative data. The RCT study was registered at Clinical Trial.gov (NCT03923582; 01/05/2021).
Data were collected from 408 students (272 medical doctors and 136 nursing students). The median age of the participants was 23 years. Most (86.0%) medical and 78.1% of nursing students reported receiving little to no cancer training. On the other hand, most (92.3%) medical and nursing (92.0%) students were interested in receiving cancer training. Furthermore, 94.1% of medical and 92.0% of nursing students needed a cancer training course in their undergraduate program. In addition, participants said a cancer training course would be important because it would help them improve the quality of cancer care and enhance the quality of life for patients by ensuring early diagnosis and treatment.
A cancer training course is both highly needed and acceptable to medical and nursing students. Implementation of this cancer training course will improve students' knowledge and skills and eventually improve the quality of cancer care and patients' quality of life by ensuring early diagnosis and management.
非洲的癌症负担正在上升。举办癌症筛查、预防、护理和社区教育培训课程对于解决广泛的癌症健康问题至关重要。当接受过适当癌症教育的医疗保健提供者提供护理时，患者的护理质量会提高，医疗保健成本会降低。然而，在坦桑尼亚，医生和护士在本科阶段几乎没有接受过初级癌症护理方面的培训。
本研究评估了达累斯萨拉姆穆希比利大学卫生与联合科学学院（MUHAS）的护理和医学专业学生对癌症培训课程的需求和接受程度。
这是一项横断面平行混合方法研究，在对卫生专业人员进行性健康培训的更大研究中进行了为期 3 个月的随访。该研究是一项针对 MUHAS 卫生学生的性健康培训与候补对照组的随机对照（RCT）、单盲、平行试验。对参与者的人口统计学信息、对癌症培训课程的需求和接受程度进行描述性分析，以确定不同学科之间的分布频率和百分比。此外，还对定性数据进行了归纳主题分析。该 RCT 研究已在 ClinicalTrials.gov 注册（NCT03923582；2021 年 1 月 5 日）。
共收集了 408 名学生（272 名医学生和 136 名护理学生）的数据。参与者的中位年龄为 23 岁。大多数（86.0%）医学生和 78.1%的护理学生报告接受的癌症培训很少或没有。另一方面，大多数（92.3%）医学生和护理（92.0%）学生有兴趣接受癌症培训。此外，94.1%的医学生和 92.0%的护理学生希望在本科课程中开设癌症培训课程。此外，参与者表示，癌症培训课程非常重要，因为它可以帮助他们提高癌症护理质量，并通过确保早期诊断和治疗来提高患者的生活质量。
癌症培训课程在医学生和护理学生中都非常需要且可接受。实施该癌症培训课程将提高学生的知识和技能，并最终通过确保早期诊断和管理来提高癌症护理质量和患者的生活质量。
