Change in children's perception of cancer in the last 10 years in Japan
| Autor: | Miyuki Morita-Tominaka, Honami Matsui, Kanako Yano, Satoshi Okamura, Yosuke Okumura, Daisuke Masumoto, Kosuke Kurihara, Hiroki Hori, Zayar Linn, Asuka Ohta |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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medicine.medical_specialty media_common.quotation_subject education Health literacy Measles Information resource Japan Perception Surveys and Questionnaires Neoplasms medicine Humans Child media_common Schools business.industry Cancer medicine.disease Family medicine Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health The Internet Health information School health business |
| Zdroj: | Pediatrics international : official journal of the Japan Pediatric SocietyReferences. 64(1) |
| ISSN: | 1442-200X |
| Popis: | BACKGROUND Social awareness on cancer can be changed with cancer education and proper distribution of cancer information. This study addressed the current situation and historical change of children's perception of cancer. METHODS Questionnaire surveys were conducted among healthy school children aged 10 to 15 years in 2008 and 2018. Knowledge of cancer was questioned and compared with that of asthma, tuberculosis or measles. Furthermore, the children were asked their resources of health information. RESULTS The numbers of participants and collection rates were 438 and 63.9% in 2008, and 320 and 44.7% in 2018. Children's perception of cancer was significantly changed in the last decade. The proportion of respondents answering "cancer affects children" was changed from 78.3 to 89.5% (P=0.0001), "cancer is preventable", from 42.0 to 49.7% (P=0.0425) and "cancer is curable", from 52.4 to 66.0% (P=0.0003). Significantly more junior high school students answered that cancer is preventable than elementary school children in 2018 (55.9 vs. 42.7%, P=0.0028). The major resources of information on health were television, parents and books. The proportion of children choosing the Internet significantly increased from 15.3 to 47.8% (P |
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