International public awareness of peripheral artery disease
| Autor: | Jorge Francisco Gomez-Cerezo, Jean-Baptiste Ricco, Juraj Madaric, Rupert Bauersachs, Marianne Brodmann, Lucia Mazzolai, Christopher E Clark, Victor Aboyans, Henrik Sillesen, Sebastian Debus, Marco De Carlo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Health Knowledge
Attitudes Practice Arterial disease Population Disease 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology Likert scale Vascular health Peripheral Arterial Disease 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Germany Surveys and Questionnaires Humans Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine education Public awareness International level Quantitative survey education.field_of_study business.industry Awareness Europe body regions Cross-Sectional Studies Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business Demography |
| Zdroj: | Bauersachs, R, Brodmann, M, Clark, C, Debus, S, De Carlo, M, Gomez-Cerezo, J F, Madaric, J, Mazzolai, L, Ricco, J B, Sillesen, H & Aboyan, V 2021, ' International public awareness of peripheral artery disease ', Vasa-European Journal of Vascular Medicine, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 294-300 . https://doi.org/10.1024/0301-1526/a000945 |
| ISSN: | 1664-2872 0301-1526 |
| DOI: | 10.1024/0301-1526/a000945 |
| Popis: | Summary: Background: Peripheral artery disease (PAD) of the lower limbs is a common condition with considerable global burden. Some country-specific studies suggest low levels of public awareness. To our knowledge public awareness of PAD has never been assessed simultaneously in several countries worldwide. Patients and methods: This was an international, general public, internet-based quantitative survey assessing vascular health and disease understanding. Questionnaires included 23 closed-ended multiple-choice, Likert scale and binary choice questions. Data were collected from 9,098 survey respondents from nine countries in Europe, North and Latin America during May-June 2018. Results: Overall, familiarity with PAD was low (57% of respondents were “not at all familiar”, and 9% were “moderately” or “very familiar”). Knowledge about PAD health consequences was limited, with 55% of all respondents not being aware of limb consequences of PAD. There were disparities in PAD familiarity levels between countries; highest levels of self-reported awareness were in Germany and Poland where 13% reported to be “very” or “moderately” familiar with PAD, and lowest in Scandinavian countries (5%, 3% and 2% of respondents in Norway, Sweden and Denmark, respectively). There were disparities in awareness according to age. Respondents aged 25–34 were most familiar with PAD, with 12% stating that they were “moderately” or “very” familiar with the condition, whereas those aged 18–24 were the least familiar with PAD (7% “moderately” or “very” familiar with PAD). In the 45–54, 55–64 and 65+ age groups, 9% said they were “moderately” or “very” familiar with the term. There was no important gender-based difference in PAD familiarity. Conclusions: On an international level, public self-reported PAD awareness is low, even though PAD is a common condition with considerable burden. Campaigns to increase PAD awareness are needed to reduce delays in diagnosis and to motivate people to control PAD risk factors. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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