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The Analysis with Quantitative Indexes for Public’s Awareness of Radiation Knowledge in Taiwan

(1) Background: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the radiation awareness level of the public in Taiwan. (2) Methods: This study designed an online survey form to investigate the radiation awareness level with six topics: basic knowledge of radiation, environmental radiation, medical radiati...

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Autores principales: Feng, Chen-Ju, Lai, Yuan-Chun, Lee, Shen-Hao, Lien, Ke-Yu, Tseng, Ching-Yu, Wu, Ni-Shan, Liang, Chiung-Ju, Wu, Chin-Hui, Hsu, Shih-Ming
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Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9603622/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36294003
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013422
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author Feng, Chen-Ju
Lai, Yuan-Chun
Lee, Shen-Hao
Lien, Ke-Yu
Tseng, Ching-Yu
Wu, Ni-Shan
Liang, Chiung-Ju
Wu, Chin-Hui
Hsu, Shih-Ming
author_facet Feng, Chen-Ju
Lai, Yuan-Chun
Lee, Shen-Hao
Lien, Ke-Yu
Tseng, Ching-Yu
Wu, Ni-Shan
Liang, Chiung-Ju
Wu, Chin-Hui
Hsu, Shih-Ming
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description (1) Background: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the radiation awareness level of the public in Taiwan. (2) Methods: This study designed an online survey form to investigate the radiation awareness level with six topics: basic knowledge of radiation, environmental radiation, medical radiation, radiation protection, and university/corporate social responsibility. The score of respondents were converted into knowledge and responsibility indexes for the quantitative evaluation. Logistic regression was used to assess the correlation between the knowledge index and individual factors. Paired t-test was used to assess the significant difference in knowledge index between pre-training and post-training. (3) Results: The knowledge index of each job category reflected the proportion of radiation awareness of the job. The logistic regression result indicated that radiation-related people could get higher knowledge index. The paired t-test indicated that the knowledge index before and after class had significant differences in all question topics. (4) Conclusions: The public’s awareness of medical radiation was the topic that needed to be strengthened the most—the responses with high knowledge index significantly correlated with their experience in radiation education training or radiation-related jobs. It significantly increased the knowledge index of radiation if the public received radiation education training.
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spelling pubmed-96036222022-10-27 The Analysis with Quantitative Indexes for Public’s Awareness of Radiation Knowledge in Taiwan Feng, Chen-Ju Lai, Yuan-Chun Lee, Shen-Hao Lien, Ke-Yu Tseng, Ching-Yu Wu, Ni-Shan Liang, Chiung-Ju Wu, Chin-Hui Hsu, Shih-Ming Int J Environ Res Public Health Article (1) Background: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the radiation awareness level of the public in Taiwan. (2) Methods: This study designed an online survey form to investigate the radiation awareness level with six topics: basic knowledge of radiation, environmental radiation, medical radiation, radiation protection, and university/corporate social responsibility. The score of respondents were converted into knowledge and responsibility indexes for the quantitative evaluation. Logistic regression was used to assess the correlation between the knowledge index and individual factors. Paired t-test was used to assess the significant difference in knowledge index between pre-training and post-training. (3) Results: The knowledge index of each job category reflected the proportion of radiation awareness of the job. The logistic regression result indicated that radiation-related people could get higher knowledge index. The paired t-test indicated that the knowledge index before and after class had significant differences in all question topics. (4) Conclusions: The public’s awareness of medical radiation was the topic that needed to be strengthened the most—the responses with high knowledge index significantly correlated with their experience in radiation education training or radiation-related jobs. It significantly increased the knowledge index of radiation if the public received radiation education training. MDPI 2022-10-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9603622/ /pubmed/36294003 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013422 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Lien, Ke-Yu
Tseng, Ching-Yu
Wu, Ni-Shan
Liang, Chiung-Ju
Wu, Chin-Hui
Hsu, Shih-Ming
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9603622/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36294003
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013422
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