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Skin cancer preventive behaviors among rural farmers: An intervention based on protection motivation theory
Background: Skin cancer is a serious public health problem in the world. Its prevalence in many countries has been increased in recent years. This study aimed to assess the effects of a theory-based educational intervention to promote skin cancer preventive behaviors (SCPBs) among rural farmers in C...
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Iran University of Medical Sciences
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5307611/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28210609 |
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author | Babazadeh, Towhid Kamran, Aziz Dargahi, Abdollah Moradi, Fatemeh Shariat, Fariba Rezakhani Moghaddam, Hamed |
author_facet | Babazadeh, Towhid Kamran, Aziz Dargahi, Abdollah Moradi, Fatemeh Shariat, Fariba Rezakhani Moghaddam, Hamed |
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description | Background: Skin cancer is a serious public health problem in the world. Its prevalence in many countries has been increased in recent years. This study aimed to assess the effects of a theory-based educational intervention to promote skin cancer preventive behaviors (SCPBs) among rural farmers in Chalderan County, Iran. Methods: This was a quasi-randomized controlled field trial study conducted on 238 rural farmers. The data were collected by a questionnaire containing the constructs of the Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) as well as the items of SCPBs. The differences between the groups before and 3 months after the intervention were determined by independent t-test, paired t-test, and chi-square applying SPSS software. Results: Before the intervention, no significant difference was found in the scores of the PMT constructs between the two groups (p>0.05). However, significant differences were found between the scores of all the variables, as well as SCPBs, in the two groups after the intervention (p<0.05). Conclusion: The PMT was found to be an appropriate framework for designing educational interventions aiming at promoting SCPBs among rural farmers. It was concluded that designing an educational program with a focus on promoting perceived susceptibility increased the level of performing SCPBs among the rural farmers. |
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spelling | pubmed-53076112017-02-16 Skin cancer preventive behaviors among rural farmers: An intervention based on protection motivation theory Babazadeh, Towhid Kamran, Aziz Dargahi, Abdollah Moradi, Fatemeh Shariat, Fariba Rezakhani Moghaddam, Hamed Med J Islam Repub Iran Original Article Background: Skin cancer is a serious public health problem in the world. Its prevalence in many countries has been increased in recent years. This study aimed to assess the effects of a theory-based educational intervention to promote skin cancer preventive behaviors (SCPBs) among rural farmers in Chalderan County, Iran. Methods: This was a quasi-randomized controlled field trial study conducted on 238 rural farmers. The data were collected by a questionnaire containing the constructs of the Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) as well as the items of SCPBs. The differences between the groups before and 3 months after the intervention were determined by independent t-test, paired t-test, and chi-square applying SPSS software. Results: Before the intervention, no significant difference was found in the scores of the PMT constructs between the two groups (p>0.05). However, significant differences were found between the scores of all the variables, as well as SCPBs, in the two groups after the intervention (p<0.05). Conclusion: The PMT was found to be an appropriate framework for designing educational interventions aiming at promoting SCPBs among rural farmers. It was concluded that designing an educational program with a focus on promoting perceived susceptibility increased the level of performing SCPBs among the rural farmers. Iran University of Medical Sciences 2016-11-22 /pmc/articles/PMC5307611/ /pubmed/28210609 Text en © 2016 Iran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0), which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Babazadeh, Towhid Kamran, Aziz Dargahi, Abdollah Moradi, Fatemeh Shariat, Fariba Rezakhani Moghaddam, Hamed Skin cancer preventive behaviors among rural farmers: An intervention based on protection motivation theory |
title | Skin cancer preventive behaviors among rural farmers: An intervention based on protection motivation theory |
title_full | Skin cancer preventive behaviors among rural farmers: An intervention based on protection motivation theory |
title_fullStr | Skin cancer preventive behaviors among rural farmers: An intervention based on protection motivation theory |
title_full_unstemmed | Skin cancer preventive behaviors among rural farmers: An intervention based on protection motivation theory |
title_short | Skin cancer preventive behaviors among rural farmers: An intervention based on protection motivation theory |
title_sort | skin cancer preventive behaviors among rural farmers: an intervention based on protection motivation theory |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5307611/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28210609 |
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