Beliefs about cancer causation in Samoa: results from an awareness campaign recall survey

Continuum beliefs and stigmatising beliefs about mental illness: results from an Asian community survey

OBJECTIVES To establish the prevalence and correlates of continuum beliefs for five mental illnesses in a multiethnic population and to explore its association with stigma. DESIGN A community-based, cross-sectional study. SETTING A national study in a multiethnic Asian country. PARTICIPANTS A comprehensive study of 3006 Singapore residents (Singapore citizens and permanent residents) aged...

What about Memory, Consciousness, Recall, and Awareness in Anesthesia?

Awareness about Cervical Cancer amongst Women in a Campaign

Objectives: to assess the basic knowledge and information regarding cervical cancer amongst women who attended a cervical cancer awareness campaign. Methods: A cervical Cancer awareness campaign was carried out in January 2016 at an academic hospital, Women’s Specialized Hospital, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on the same day. A cross sectional survey was performed where a quest...

Detection of prostate cancer by an FDG-PET cancer screening program: results from a Japanese nationwide survey

Objective(s): The aim of this study was to analyze detection rates and effectiveness of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) cancer screening program for prostate cancer in Japan, which is defined as a cancer-screening program for subjects without known cancer. It contains FDG-PET aimed at detection of cancer at an early stage with or without additional screening tests ...

An international measure of awareness and beliefs about cancer: development and testing of the ABC

OBJECTIVES To develop an internationally validated measure of cancer awareness and beliefs; the awareness and beliefs about cancer (ABC) measure. DESIGN AND SETTING Items modified from existing measures were assessed by a working group in six countries (Australia, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the UK). Validation studies were completed in the UK, and cross-sectional surveys of the gener...