Health literacy in prostate cancer: What do Spanish men know about prostate cancer? A cross-sectional descriptive study.

Autor: Romojaro-Pérez C; Unidad Fisioterapia Salud Pélvica, Clínica DKF, Madrid, Spain., Navarro-Brazález B; Grupo de Investigación Fisioterapia en los Procesos de Salud de la Mujer, Unidad Docente de Fisioterapia, Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain; Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación-IRYCIS, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain. Electronic address: b.navarro@uah.es., Bailón-Cerezo J; Grupo de Investigación Fisioterapia en los Procesos de Salud de la Mujer, Unidad Docente de Fisioterapia, Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain; Departamento de Fisioterapia, Centro Superior de Estudios Universitarios La Salle, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain., Torres-Lacomba M; Grupo de Investigación Fisioterapia en los Procesos de Salud de la Mujer, Unidad Docente de Fisioterapia, Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain; Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación-IRYCIS, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain.
Jazyk: English; Spanish; Castilian
Zdroj: Actas urologicas espanolas [Actas Urol Esp (Engl Ed)] 2024 Nov; Vol. 48 (9), pp. 642-650. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jun 21.
DOI: 10.1016/j.acuroe.2024.06.003
Abstrakt: Introduction: Prostate cancer is the tumor with the highest incidence in Spanish men. The implementation of health literacy and therapeutic education programs adapted to the needs of the population could be a resource to minimize the sequelae derived from the treatments used to combat this pathology. To this end, it would be necessary to know the level of health literacy about prostate cancer.
Objective: To determine the level of health literacy in prostate cancer in the Spanish male population using the validated version of the PCKQ-12 for the Spanish population.
Methodology: Cross-sectional, population-based, descriptive study. Spanish-speaking men of legal age were included. To carry out the study, an ad hoc questionnaire was designed on the Google Forms platform, which was distributed via WhatsApp. Previously, it was necessary to validate the PCKQ-12 to the Spanish population in two phases, a first phase for translation and cross-cultural adaptation and a second phase to test the measurement properties.
Results: The Spanish version of the PCKQ-12 showed good language, conceptual, semantic and content equivalence and could be used to assess health literacy in prostate cancer. Three hundred and seventy Spanish men with a mean age of 43.87 (SD 13.65) years responded to the questionnaire. The level of prostate cancer health literacy found was low (6.72 points), being 2 points higher in health men.
Conclusion: Health literacy about prostate cancer in the Spanish male population is low.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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