Knowledge of Oral Cancer by a Brazilian Population
| Autor: | Poliane Caroline Gonçalves de Ceno, Ana Carolina Ribeiro Sales, Maíra Teixeira Silva, Paulo Eduardo Alencar Souza, Daniela Silva Reis, Fábio Fernandes Borém Bruzinga, Soraya de Mattos Camargo Grossmann, Joyce Caroline Guimarães, Regiane Kelly Mendes de Sá |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
Health Knowledge
Attitudes Practice medicine.medical_specialty Higher education Population Disease 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Risk Factors Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Family history Risk factor education Health Education education.field_of_study business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Cancer medicine.disease Cross-Sectional Studies Oncology 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Family medicine Etiology Mouth Neoplasms Health education business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Cancer Education. 36:965-970 |
| ISSN: | 1543-0154 0885-8195 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s13187-020-01722-4 |
| Popis: | The aim of the present study was to investigate the knowledge about oral cancer in a Brazilian population, including initial clinical signs, causal factors, and the health professional of first choice when suspected of the disease. A total of 2261 participants were interviewed in a cross-sectional study, to investigate associations between sociodemographic descriptive variables and knowledge of oral cancer, risk factors, disease precursor lesions, and health professional of choice for diagnosis. The variables were descriptively analyzed and possible associations investigated considering p values |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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