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- Title
Barriers Related to Screening Examinations for Prostate Cancer.
- Authors
de Paiva, Elenir Pereira; da Motta, Maria Catarina Salvador; Griep, Rosane Harter
- Abstract
With the aim of describing barriers to screening for prostate cancer, a domicile survey was carried out covering 160 men of a Family Health Strategy (FHS) area. Slightly over half had undergone the examination. Regarding beliefs related to the disease, 95% of the men believed there is a cure if detected early, 29.4% mentioned the possibility of a normal life while ill, 56.3% believed it may be asymptomatic, 36.1% agreed/disagreed that the treatment is worse than the disease and 34.4% agreed that the examination affects masculinity and that if you are well it is not necessary to perform it. Regarding barriers, 15% reported that the physician had never requested it, 10.9% did not consider it important and. 16.9% were afraid to take the examination. While not the sole determinant, the dissemination of adequate knowledge regarding the examination can constitute a key strategy for the formation of a positive attitude in relation to early detection.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; PROSTATE tumors; ANALYSIS of variance; ATTITUDE (Psychology); CANCER; COMPUTER software; MEDICAL screening; PATIENTS; RESEARCH evaluation; STATISTICAL sampling; DATA analysis; CROSS-sectional method; DIAGNOSIS
- Publication
Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem (RLAE), 2011, Vol 19, Issue 1, p73
- ISSN
1518-8345
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/S0104-11692011000100011