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Knowledge, Attitudes and Practice of Testicular Self- examination among Male University Students from Bangladesh, Madagascar, Singapore, South Africa and Turkey.
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Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP [Asian Pac J Cancer Prev] 2015; Vol. 16 (11), pp. 4741-3. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- The aim of this study was to investigate the knowledge, attitude and practice of testicular self-examination (TSE) among male university students from low income (Bangladesh, Madagascar), middle income (South Africa, Turkey) and emerging economy (Singapore) countries. Using anonymous questionnaires, data were collected from 2,061 male undergraduate university students aged 16-30 (mean age 21.4, SD=2.4) from 5 universities in 5 countries across Asia and Africa. Overall, 17.6% of the male students indicated that they knew how to perform TSE; this knowledge proportion was above 20% in Bangladesh and Singapore, while it was the lowest (12.2%) in Madagascar. Among all men, 86.4% had never practiced TSE in the past 12 months, 7.1% 1-2 times, 3.5% 3-10 times, and monthly TSE was 3.1%. The proportion of past 12 month TSE was the highest (17.6%) among male university students in South Africa and the lowest (7.3%) among students in Singapore. Logistic regression found that TSE importance or positive attitude was highly associated with TSE practice. TSE practices were found to be inadequate and efforts should be made to develop programmes that can increase knowledge related to testicular cancer as well as the practice of testicular self-examination.
- Subjects :
- Adolescent
Adult
Bangladesh
Cross-Sectional Studies
Follow-Up Studies
Humans
Madagascar
Male
Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal psychology
Prognosis
Singapore
South Africa
Surveys and Questionnaires
Testicular Neoplasms psychology
Turkey
Universities
Young Adult
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal diagnosis
Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal prevention & control
Self-Examination methods
Self-Examination statistics & numerical data
Students psychology
Testicular Neoplasms diagnosis
Testicular Neoplasms prevention & control
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 2476-762X
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 11
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 26107234
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.7314/apjcp.2015.16.11.4741