Awareness regarding risk factors and determinants of cancers among Bahir Dar city residents, Northwest Ethiopia

Abstract

Background Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the world. Knowing the cancer risk factors could help the policy-makers to design appropriate preventive and control strategies. Objective To investigate the awareness regarding risk factors and determinants of cancers among Bahir Dar city residents, northwest, 2019 Methods A community-based cross-sectional study was employed. A systematic random sampling technique was carried out to select 845 study participants from May 1 to June 30, 2019. A validated structured cancer awareness measuring tool was used to collect the data. The data were entered into the Epi-data version 3.1 and analyzed using SPSS version 21 software. A simple logistic regression was run, and AOR (adjusted odds ratio) at a 95% confidence interval was used to identify the determinants of awareness regarding risk factors of cancers. Results Nearly twenty percent of the respondents had a good awareness regarding risk factors of cancers. An orthodox Christian (AOR = 3. 2; 95%CI: 1.8, 5.6), college graduated (AOR = 2. 3; 95%CI:1.1, 4.9), a family member with cancer (AOR = 2. 0; 95%CI: 1.3, 3.3), and living in a rental house (AOR = 0. 6; 95%CI: 0.4, 0.9) were significantly associated with awareness regarding risk factors of cancers. Conclusion The study revealed that awareness regarding risk factors of cancers was very low in the study area. Being Orthodox Christian, college graduated, a family member with cancer, and living in the rental house were the determinants of awareness regarding risk factors of cancers.

Current situation and future directions of lung cancer risk factor awareness in Palestine: a cross-sectional study

“…Besides smoking, there are LC risk factors for LC, such as exposure to radiation, occupational hazards such as asbestos, air pollution and family history of LC 6–8. However, previous studies showed that awareness of smoking-related risk factors of LC was higher than that of other LC risk factors 9–11…”

“…[6][7][8] However, previous studies showed that awareness of smoking-related risk factors of LC was higher than that of other LC risk factors. [9][10][11] One of the most important contributors to the low survival rates of LC is delayed presentation. This could be due to factors related to patients, healthcare providers, the healthcare system or the disease itself.…”

A Systematic Review on Reporting of Methods in National Surveys about Adults’ Attitudes to Lifestyle and Environmental Risk Factors for Cancer

“…The 31 cross-sectional studies included in the review were published between 1992 and 2021 and conducted around the world (see Table 1). The majority of the studies focused on attitudes to cancer risk factors (n = 24 out of 31; [20,21,23,24,[26][27][28][29][30][31][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][43][44][45][46][47][48]) and six others focused on attitudes to risk factors for many specific cancers (for example, for breast, cervical, prostate and colon cancer) [19,22,25,32,42,49]. In total, 112,904 participants (from 358 to 19,076 participants), mostly women, were included in these studies.…”

“…Australia 6 [19,21,23,24,29,35] United-Kingdom 4 [29,41,44,49] United States 4 [22,25,30,48] India 3 [36,39,40] Canada 2 [29,47] Danish 2 [29,33] France 2 [34,38] Swedish 2 [29,33] Turkey 2 [32,45] Ethiopia 1 [20] Iran 1 [28] Ireland 1 [43] Japan 1 [31] Mexico 1 [37] Morocco 1 [26] New-Zealand 1 [42] >>Palestine/Gaza 1 [27] 1 Some studies included multiple countries.…”

“…In the public health research literature, the terms "knowledge", "awareness", "belief", "representation", "public perception", or "attitude" are sometimes juxtaposed. In this systematic review, twelve articles focused on "awareness" [20,26,28,31,33,40,41,43,44,46,47,49], eight on "knowledge" [21,22,25,27,30,36,37,39], six on Question for cohort study assessment: Q1 = "Did the study address a clearly focused issue? "; Q2 = "Was the cohort recruited in an acceptable way?…”