Prostate cancer awareness and attitude toward early detection among male soldiers in Ghana: a cross-sectional study

Necku, Juliana Gyasi; Anaba, Emmanuel Anongeba; Abuosi, Aaron Asibi

doi:10.1186/s12301-019-0004-3

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“…Our data could support the view of a recent review study which suggested increasing high incidence of prostate cancer in younger men [27]. Our report feeding into reported low knowledge and awareness of prostate cancer risk in Ghana [28,29] call for the introduction an aggressive mass screening program to accurately detect the early detection age in the study setting.…”

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confidence: 87%

Putative Risk Factors of Prostate Cancer in Unscreened Ghanaian Men

Gyamfi¹,

Anto²,

Acheampong³

et al. 2020

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African countries with weak health systems and infrastructure are at risk of high incidence and mortality of prostate cancer. The absence of specific causative agents for prostate cancer calls for early detection strategies and the identification of susceptible factors. We undertook a community-based prostate-specific antigen screening of Ghanaian men to ascertain the association between putative risk factors and prostate cancer. Using an adjusted PSA cut-off we found a prostate cancer prevalence of 12.5% with most men diagnosed between 62–77 years (Mean; 69.50 ± 8.46). We found no statitsically significant association between putative risk factors such as obesity, hypertension, intake of alcohol, and smoking with prostate cancer. However, we observed a significant association between age and occupation, and prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is a growing challenge in Ghanaian men. Detection with PSA offers diagnostic significance and may help in reducing the burden in men. Differences in genetic and environmental differences between populations call for a population-specific assessment of risk factors.

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confidence: 87%

Putative Risk Factors of Prostate Cancer in Unscreened Ghanaian Men

Gyamfi¹,

Anto²,

Acheampong³

et al. 2020

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“…This intention was similar when compared with another study conducted in Spain (57.9%) (11,12,13) . A similar findings are accordance with another study carried out in Jamaica, the result of study the participants had positive attitude toward early detections of prostate cancer but low intentions of getting tested (14) . This findings disagree with many studies have shown negative attitudes toward early screening for PC (15,16,17) .…”

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confidence: 92%

Determination of Employees' Attitudes Concerning Contributing Factors and Early Detection for Prostate Cancer in Baghdad University Colleges in bab-Almudam

Atiyah

Majeed

2020

Kufa Jour. Nurs. Sci.

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Background: Prostate cancer is increasingly becoming one of the most significant health problems facing Iraqi men and the commonest cause of cancer related death in men globally. Aims of the study: The objective of this study to determination of employeesâ€™ attitudes toward contributing factors and early detection methods for prostate cancer among male staffs of Baghdad's University Colleges in bab-Almudam Methodology: A cross sectional descriptive design study was carried out among 100 male staff working in colleges of Baghdad University in Bab-Almudam region. Male staffs that agreed to participant and were recruited on giving oral consent, Data was collected by distributing structured a self-administered questionnaire, written in Arabic was used. Results: The Majority of participants (66.0%) were ages between (38 - 47) years, the median age was 41 years (range, 18- 62) years (mean=41.8+ S.D =10.035). Regarding marital status, the majority (85 %) was married, followed by (13%) who were single and (2%) who were divorced or widowed. Approximately half (45%) of participants had PhD education, following by (33 %) university, (8%) secondary school, (7%) MSc and (4%) institute education and (3%) intermediate education. Furthermore, (94%) of study participants reported they had no family history of prostate only (6%) reported had family history PCa. A total of (98%) were living in urban area and reminder lived in rural area. Most of the study participants 48 (56%) had positive level, while (20%) of them had strong positive and only (24%) of total participants had negative attitude about early detection and intention screening of PCa.

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“…The findings are not expected and therefore surprising because one expects that based on the level of education of teachers, they should be aware of prostate cancer preventive measures. The finding is in consonant with the findings of Neku et al, (2019) that 58.3% of their respondents were aware of prostate cancer preventive while 41.7% were less aware. The findings disagreed with the findings of Abdulrhman et al, (2018) that less than 30% of adult males are aware of preventive measures of prostate cancer.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…The findings were not expected and therefore surprising because it was below the researcher's expectation. Neku, et. al.…”

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confidence: 99%

Awareness of the Preventive Measures of Prostate Cancer Among Secondary School Teachers in Mbaitoli L.GA, Imo State, Nigeria

NDUBUISI¹,

JENNIFER²,

OKEKE³

et al. 2023

IJREHC

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This study investigated the awareness of the preventive measures for prostate cancer among secondary school teachers in Mbaitoli L.GA, Imo State, Nigeria. The study adopted a crosssectional survey design. The population comprised 500 secondary school teachers out of which 200 were randomly selected through a multi-stage sampling procedure. A structured questionnaire called the Awareness of Preventive Measures of Prostate Cancer Questionnaire (APMPCQ) was used as an instrument for data collection. Three juries are drawn from the Department of Health Education, Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education, validated the instrument. The reliability co-efficient of 0.78 and 0.76 were obtained using the Cronbach Alpha Reliability coefficient on the primary and secondary preventive measures of prostate cancer awareness respectively. The data obtained were analyzed using descriptive statistics of frequency and percentage in answering the research questions and inferential statistics of chisquare were used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance and appropriate degree of freedom. The findings revealed that more than half (56%) of the respondents were aware of the primary preventive measures for prostate cancer. The findings also revealed that more than half (53.5%) of the respondents are aware of the secondary preventive measures for prostate cancer. Based on the findings, nearly, half of the respondents were unaware of the primary (44%) and secondary (46.6%) preventive measures for prostate cancer. The findings also revealed that the respondents in the age group 40 to 49 years and those whose primary sources of information are television were aware of the preventive measures of prostate cancer more than their counterparts in the other age groups and of other sources. The findings further revealed that the awareness of preventive measures for prostate cancer does not vary by age and primary source of information. Based on the findings, the researchers recommended among others that; dissemination of information about prostate cancer and its preventive measures should be through multiple information sources using jingles, posters, radio, TV talks, and patient education by medical personnel in the general outpatient department.

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Prostate cancer awareness and attitude toward early detection among male soldiers in Ghana: a cross-sectional study

Cited by 10 publications

References 13 publications

Putative Risk Factors of Prostate Cancer in Unscreened Ghanaian Men

Putative Risk Factors of Prostate Cancer in Unscreened Ghanaian Men

Determination of Employees' Attitudes Concerning Contributing Factors and Early Detection for Prostate Cancer in Baghdad University Colleges in bab-Almudam

Awareness of the Preventive Measures of Prostate Cancer Among Secondary School Teachers in Mbaitoli L.GA, Imo State, Nigeria

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