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Awareness of and practice toward cancer prevention recommendations: results of the Korean National Cancer Prevention Awareness and Practice Survey in 2021
OBJECTIVES: This study reports data regarding the awareness and practice of cancer prevention among Koreans in 2021 and behavioral changes during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. METHODS: We collected Cancer Prevention Awareness and Practice Survey data through face-to-face intervie...
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Korean Society of Epidemiology
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9943633/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36049500 http://dx.doi.org/10.4178/epih.e2022068 |
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author | Oh, Jin-Kyoung Park, Eunjung Kim, Byungmi Choi, Yoon-Jung Yun, E Hwa Lim, Min Kyung Im, Jeong-Soo Park, Eun Young |
author_facet | Oh, Jin-Kyoung Park, Eunjung Kim, Byungmi Choi, Yoon-Jung Yun, E Hwa Lim, Min Kyung Im, Jeong-Soo Park, Eun Young |
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description | OBJECTIVES: This study reports data regarding the awareness and practice of cancer prevention among Koreans in 2021 and behavioral changes during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. METHODS: We collected Cancer Prevention Awareness and Practice Survey data through face-to-face interview surveys using a structured questionnaire completed by 4,000 randomly selected men and women aged between 20 years and 74 years in 17 provinces. We examined the awareness and practice of 10 cancer prevention recommendations and evaluated their associations with potential risk factors through multiple logistic regression analysis adjusted for age, gender, residence, marital status, education, and income. RESULTS: Eighty percent of participants knew that cancer is preventable, while 45% practiced cancer prevention. Cancer prevention practice tended to be more common among older participants (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 1.39 per 10-year increment; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.29 to 1.49) and less common among rural inhabitants (aOR, 0.66; 95% CI, 0.51 to 0.86) than among urban residents and among single people (aOR, 0.55; 95% CI, 0.45 to 0.66) than among married people. Practices were the highest for avoiding burned or charred foods (87.6%) and lowest for vaccination against human papillomavirus (14.5%). Refusal to follow recommendations was most common for avoiding alcohol consumption (7.9%). The most difficult recommendations to follow were (1) regular exercise (57.7%); (2) maintaining a healthy body weight (46.1%); and (3) avoiding alcohol (40.1%). The most significant COVID-19-related changes were less exercise (32.5%) and increased body weight (25.6%). CONCLUSIONS: The awareness of cancer prevention was high, but the practice was low. Recommendations targeting awareness and practice need to be further promoted. |
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spelling | pubmed-99436332023-02-22 Awareness of and practice toward cancer prevention recommendations: results of the Korean National Cancer Prevention Awareness and Practice Survey in 2021 Oh, Jin-Kyoung Park, Eunjung Kim, Byungmi Choi, Yoon-Jung Yun, E Hwa Lim, Min Kyung Im, Jeong-Soo Park, Eun Young Epidemiol Health COVID-19 OBJECTIVES: This study reports data regarding the awareness and practice of cancer prevention among Koreans in 2021 and behavioral changes during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. METHODS: We collected Cancer Prevention Awareness and Practice Survey data through face-to-face interview surveys using a structured questionnaire completed by 4,000 randomly selected men and women aged between 20 years and 74 years in 17 provinces. We examined the awareness and practice of 10 cancer prevention recommendations and evaluated their associations with potential risk factors through multiple logistic regression analysis adjusted for age, gender, residence, marital status, education, and income. RESULTS: Eighty percent of participants knew that cancer is preventable, while 45% practiced cancer prevention. Cancer prevention practice tended to be more common among older participants (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 1.39 per 10-year increment; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.29 to 1.49) and less common among rural inhabitants (aOR, 0.66; 95% CI, 0.51 to 0.86) than among urban residents and among single people (aOR, 0.55; 95% CI, 0.45 to 0.66) than among married people. Practices were the highest for avoiding burned or charred foods (87.6%) and lowest for vaccination against human papillomavirus (14.5%). Refusal to follow recommendations was most common for avoiding alcohol consumption (7.9%). The most difficult recommendations to follow were (1) regular exercise (57.7%); (2) maintaining a healthy body weight (46.1%); and (3) avoiding alcohol (40.1%). The most significant COVID-19-related changes were less exercise (32.5%) and increased body weight (25.6%). CONCLUSIONS: The awareness of cancer prevention was high, but the practice was low. Recommendations targeting awareness and practice need to be further promoted. Korean Society of Epidemiology 2022-08-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9943633/ /pubmed/36049500 http://dx.doi.org/10.4178/epih.e2022068 Text en ©2022, Korean Society of Epidemiology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | COVID-19 Oh, Jin-Kyoung Park, Eunjung Kim, Byungmi Choi, Yoon-Jung Yun, E Hwa Lim, Min Kyung Im, Jeong-Soo Park, Eun Young Awareness of and practice toward cancer prevention recommendations: results of the Korean National Cancer Prevention Awareness and Practice Survey in 2021 |
title | Awareness of and practice toward cancer prevention recommendations: results of the Korean National Cancer Prevention Awareness and Practice Survey in 2021 |
title_full | Awareness of and practice toward cancer prevention recommendations: results of the Korean National Cancer Prevention Awareness and Practice Survey in 2021 |
title_fullStr | Awareness of and practice toward cancer prevention recommendations: results of the Korean National Cancer Prevention Awareness and Practice Survey in 2021 |
title_full_unstemmed | Awareness of and practice toward cancer prevention recommendations: results of the Korean National Cancer Prevention Awareness and Practice Survey in 2021 |
title_short | Awareness of and practice toward cancer prevention recommendations: results of the Korean National Cancer Prevention Awareness and Practice Survey in 2021 |
title_sort | awareness of and practice toward cancer prevention recommendations: results of the korean national cancer prevention awareness and practice survey in 2021 |
topic | COVID-19 |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9943633/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36049500 http://dx.doi.org/10.4178/epih.e2022068 |
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