A community based study regarding awareness of cancer among women of reproductive age group (15-49 years) in Kalaburagi district
Journal Title: National Journal of Research in Community Medicine - Year 2015, Vol 4, Issue 4
Abstract
Background Due to lack of awareness of cancer and danger signs among people, more than 70% of the cases present in advanced stage accounting to high morbidity and mortality. Objective: To study the awareness of cancer among women in the reproductive age group of Kalaburagi district Method: A community based cross sectional study, among 200 women of reproductive age group (18-49 years) covering 4 areas each from rural and urban area selected using simple random sampling technique. Results: Out of 200 women, only 70.5% (141) of the women were aware of cancer, as a disease. Major source of knowledge was 60% from their relatives and friends among different media, television ranks the first. 68.5% of the respondents had knowledge that tobacco chewing is the main cause for cancer followed by smoking (66.5%) and Alcohol (51.5%) least number (3%) had knowledge that improper diet and physical activity can cause cancer, out of 141 only 91% of the women knew that there are screening test for detecting cancer and 9% did not know about screening test. 12.5% were aware about self examination of breast and only one woman knew about pap smear test. Conclusion: Most of the respondents did not know about how to identify cancer, what are its symptoms and the tests available for the diagnosis of the cancer. Hence, it is recommended to increase awareness about cancer disease, its symptoms, identification and its detection and about the screening tests, to avoid the increasing number of deaths due to cancer by Legislation, public awareness programmes in different settings like educational institutions, work places and industries.
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Amrutha Swati Indupalli, Sujatha Inginshetty, Purushottam A. Giri, Kaviraj Motakpalli, Deepak Jamadar
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