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Patient awareness/knowledge towards oral cancer: a cross-sectional survey
BACKGROUND: Oral cancer (OC) is associated with multiple risk factors and high mortality rates and substantially contributes to the global cancer burden despite being highly preventable. This cross-sectional study sought to assess current knowledge, awareness, and behaviors of patients in rural comm...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5952627/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29764414 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12903-018-0539-x |
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author | Shimpi, Neel Jethwani, Monica Bharatkumar, Aditi Chyou, Po-Huang Glurich, Ingrid Acharya, Amit |
author_facet | Shimpi, Neel Jethwani, Monica Bharatkumar, Aditi Chyou, Po-Huang Glurich, Ingrid Acharya, Amit |
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description | BACKGROUND: Oral cancer (OC) is associated with multiple risk factors and high mortality rates and substantially contributes to the global cancer burden despite being highly preventable. This cross-sectional study sought to assess current knowledge, awareness, and behaviors of patients in rural communities surrounding OC risk. METHODS: An anonymous 21-question survey was distributed to patients in waiting rooms of a large integrated medical-dental health system serving north-central Wisconsin. Survey results were summarized via descriptive statistics. Odds ratios surrounding health literacy on OC risk factors were obtained using unconditional univariate logistic regression analysis. RESULTS: Of 504 dental and 306 medical patients completing the survey, 62.2% were female, Caucasian/White (92%) with 41% having a ≤ high school diploma/equivalent. Current smoker/smokeless tobacco use was reported by 34%, while 39% reported former tobacco exposure. Alcohol use was reported by 54% of respondents at the following frequencies: < once/week, (35%); 1–2 times/week, (16%); 3–4 times/week, (6%); 5–6 times/week, (2%); and daily, (23%). Knowledge about tobacco and alcohol use and increased OC risk was reported by 94 and 40%, respectively. About 50% reported knowledgeability regarding cancer-associated symptomology. Tobacco cessation was reported by 20% of responders. Receipt of education on OC from healthcare providers and human papilloma virus links to OC causation was reported by 38 and 21%, respectively. CONCLUSION: Patients who smoked > 20+ cigarettes per day were more knowledgeable about tobacco and OC risk compared to non-smokers and those who smoked ≤ 19 cigarettes/day (p = 0.0647). Patients who were alcohol consumers exhibited higher knowledgeability surrounding increased OC risk with alcohol and tobacco exposures compared to alcohol abstainers (p = 0.06). We concluded that patients recognized links between tobacco and OC risk but demonstrated lower knowledge of other causal factors. Strategic patient education by providers could increase awareness of OC risk. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s12903-018-0539-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-59526272018-05-21 Patient awareness/knowledge towards oral cancer: a cross-sectional survey Shimpi, Neel Jethwani, Monica Bharatkumar, Aditi Chyou, Po-Huang Glurich, Ingrid Acharya, Amit BMC Oral Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Oral cancer (OC) is associated with multiple risk factors and high mortality rates and substantially contributes to the global cancer burden despite being highly preventable. This cross-sectional study sought to assess current knowledge, awareness, and behaviors of patients in rural communities surrounding OC risk. METHODS: An anonymous 21-question survey was distributed to patients in waiting rooms of a large integrated medical-dental health system serving north-central Wisconsin. Survey results were summarized via descriptive statistics. Odds ratios surrounding health literacy on OC risk factors were obtained using unconditional univariate logistic regression analysis. RESULTS: Of 504 dental and 306 medical patients completing the survey, 62.2% were female, Caucasian/White (92%) with 41% having a ≤ high school diploma/equivalent. Current smoker/smokeless tobacco use was reported by 34%, while 39% reported former tobacco exposure. Alcohol use was reported by 54% of respondents at the following frequencies: < once/week, (35%); 1–2 times/week, (16%); 3–4 times/week, (6%); 5–6 times/week, (2%); and daily, (23%). Knowledge about tobacco and alcohol use and increased OC risk was reported by 94 and 40%, respectively. About 50% reported knowledgeability regarding cancer-associated symptomology. Tobacco cessation was reported by 20% of responders. Receipt of education on OC from healthcare providers and human papilloma virus links to OC causation was reported by 38 and 21%, respectively. CONCLUSION: Patients who smoked > 20+ cigarettes per day were more knowledgeable about tobacco and OC risk compared to non-smokers and those who smoked ≤ 19 cigarettes/day (p = 0.0647). Patients who were alcohol consumers exhibited higher knowledgeability surrounding increased OC risk with alcohol and tobacco exposures compared to alcohol abstainers (p = 0.06). We concluded that patients recognized links between tobacco and OC risk but demonstrated lower knowledge of other causal factors. Strategic patient education by providers could increase awareness of OC risk. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s12903-018-0539-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2018-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5952627/ /pubmed/29764414 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12903-018-0539-x Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Shimpi, Neel Jethwani, Monica Bharatkumar, Aditi Chyou, Po-Huang Glurich, Ingrid Acharya, Amit Patient awareness/knowledge towards oral cancer: a cross-sectional survey |
title | Patient awareness/knowledge towards oral cancer: a cross-sectional survey |
title_full | Patient awareness/knowledge towards oral cancer: a cross-sectional survey |
title_fullStr | Patient awareness/knowledge towards oral cancer: a cross-sectional survey |
title_full_unstemmed | Patient awareness/knowledge towards oral cancer: a cross-sectional survey |
title_short | Patient awareness/knowledge towards oral cancer: a cross-sectional survey |
title_sort | patient awareness/knowledge towards oral cancer: a cross-sectional survey |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5952627/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29764414 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12903-018-0539-x |
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