Cancer Knowledge, Attitude and Protective Behaviour in High-School Students: A Cross-sectional Analytical Study in East Azerbaijan, Iran
Introduction: Providing and enhancing knowledge, attitude, delivering and conduction of evidence based information and beliefs about all aspects of cancer in adolescent life period are so important. Aim: The study aimed to evaluate and investigate the main information regarding knowledge, attit...
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doaj-836a74a3bfda41de8fdd2ad5fbf8b1db2021-05-29T10:16:29ZengJCDR Research and Publications Private LimitedJournal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research2249-782X0973-709X2020-11-011411LC29LC33 10.7860/JCDR/2020/45266.14231Cancer Knowledge, Attitude and Protective Behaviour in High-School Students: A Cross-sectional Analytical Study in East Azerbaijan, IranRoya Dolatkhah0Keivan Fakhari Dehkharghani1Assistant Professor (Academic Researcher), Haematology and Oncology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, East Azerbaijan, Tabriz, Iran.Medical Student, Meshkat High-School, East Azerbaijan, Tabriz, Iran.Introduction: Providing and enhancing knowledge, attitude, delivering and conduction of evidence based information and beliefs about all aspects of cancer in adolescent life period are so important. Aim: The study aimed to evaluate and investigate the main information regarding knowledge, attitude and protective behaviour on high-school student of Tabriz City, East Azerbaijan, North West of Iran. Materials and Methods: This study was performed as a cross-sectional analytical research study, during the 2017 Sep-2018 June academic year, in randomly selected highschools. Questionnaire was designed and implemented which included socio-demographic information and 65 questions with three answers from disagree, agree, completely agree, and each answer was given from 1 to 3 marks. Question were about the knowledge (n=20; 0-20 poor, 21-40 moderate, 41-60 good), attitude (n=20; 0-20 poor, 21-40 moderate, 41-60 good) and protective behaviour (n=25; Protective Behaviour: 0-25 poor, 26-50 moderate, 51-75 good) regarding cancer. The response options designed as Likert scales and each variable scored from worst to best status and the total scores as 0-40 (very poor), 41-80 (poor), 81-120 (moderate), 121- 160 (good) and 161-195 (very good). Results: Overall 471 students participated in this survey, between 14-19 years with mean age of 16.79 years. The total mean score of knowledge, attitude and protective behaviour was 136.05 (±SD 3.24) which was considered as good. Total scores was significantly higher in better Socio-Demographic Status (SDS), students with moderate SDS had 3.85 times and students with good SDS had about 2 times higher total scores. Total scores were twice among16-17 year-old group than younger students (OR=1.97; 95% CI: 1.03-3.76, p=0.04). Conclusion: The results indicated better levels of knowledge, attitude and protective behaviour regarding cancer in highschool students. SDS had significantly impact on the total knowledge levels.https://jcdr.net/articles/PDF/14231/45266_CE[Ra1]_F(SHU)_PF1(ShG_KM)_PFA(ShG_KM)_PN(SL).pdfawarenesseducational programneoplasmorientation |
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Cancer Knowledge, Attitude and Protective Behaviour in High-School Students: A Cross-sectional Analytical Study in East Azerbaijan, Iran |
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Cancer Knowledge, Attitude and Protective Behaviour in High-School Students: A Cross-sectional Analytical Study in East Azerbaijan, Iran |
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Cancer Knowledge, Attitude and Protective Behaviour in High-School Students: A Cross-sectional Analytical Study in East Azerbaijan, Iran |
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Cancer Knowledge, Attitude and Protective Behaviour in High-School Students: A Cross-sectional Analytical Study in East Azerbaijan, Iran |
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Cancer Knowledge, Attitude and Protective Behaviour in High-School Students: A Cross-sectional Analytical Study in East Azerbaijan, Iran |
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cancer knowledge, attitude and protective behaviour in high-school students: a cross-sectional analytical study in east azerbaijan, iran |
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Introduction: Providing and enhancing knowledge, attitude,
delivering and conduction of evidence based information and
beliefs about all aspects of cancer in adolescent life period are
so important.
Aim: The study aimed to evaluate and investigate the main
information regarding knowledge, attitude and protective
behaviour on high-school student of Tabriz City, East Azerbaijan,
North West of Iran.
Materials and Methods: This study was performed as a
cross-sectional analytical research study, during the 2017
Sep-2018 June academic year, in randomly selected highschools. Questionnaire was designed and implemented which
included socio-demographic information and 65 questions with
three answers from disagree, agree, completely agree, and
each answer was given from 1 to 3 marks. Question were about
the knowledge (n=20; 0-20 poor, 21-40 moderate, 41-60 good),
attitude (n=20; 0-20 poor, 21-40 moderate, 41-60 good) and
protective behaviour (n=25; Protective Behaviour: 0-25 poor,
26-50 moderate, 51-75 good) regarding cancer.
The response options designed as Likert scales and each
variable scored from worst to best status and the total scores
as 0-40 (very poor), 41-80 (poor), 81-120 (moderate), 121-
160 (good) and 161-195 (very good).
Results: Overall 471 students participated in this survey,
between 14-19 years with mean age of 16.79 years. The total
mean score of knowledge, attitude and protective behaviour
was 136.05 (±SD 3.24) which was considered as good. Total
scores was significantly higher in better Socio-Demographic
Status (SDS), students with moderate SDS had 3.85 times and
students with good SDS had about 2 times higher total scores.
Total scores were twice among16-17 year-old group than
younger students (OR=1.97; 95% CI: 1.03-3.76, p=0.04).
Conclusion: The results indicated better levels of knowledge,
attitude and protective behaviour regarding cancer in highschool students. SDS had significantly impact on the total
knowledge levels. |
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