KMID : 0948220110150010041
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Keimyung Journal of Nursing Science 2011 Volume.15 No. 1 p.41 ~ p.55
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Cancer-related Knowledge, Attitude, and Preventive Health Behavior of Middle-aged Women in Korea
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Ko Hyo-Jung
Kim Jung-Nam Park Kyung-Min Park Young-Sook Park Jeong-Sook Kwak Hye-Weon
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Abstract
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Purpose: The study was done to identify the levels of middle-aged women¡¯s cancer-related knowledge, attitude and preventive health behavior in Korea.
Methods: Data were collected from questionnaires of 391 middle-aged women in D metropolitan city in Korea. Measures were cancer-related knowledge, attitude, and preventive health behavior. Data were analyzed using frequencies, means and standard deviation, t-test, ANOV A, Tukey test, Pearson correlation coefficients, and Simple regression with SPSS/WIN 14.0 version.
Results: The mean score for cancer-related knowledge of the participants was 3,56, out of a possible 5. There were significant differences in cancer-related knowledge according to average monthly income, education level, occupation, cancer history, family history, and periodic checkup. The mean score for cancer-related attitude of the participants was 4.04, out of a possible 5. The mean score for cancer-related preventive health behavior of the participants was 3.62, out of a possible 5. Cancer-related knowledge correlated positively with attitude, and attitude correlated positively with health preventive behavior.
Conclusion: As the middle-aged women¡¯s cancer-related knowledge becomes high, the attitude toward cancer gets more positive. Also the middle-aged women¡¯s attitude toward cancer becomes positive, the performance of preventive health behavior gets better. The factors influencing the middle-aged women¡¯s preventive health performance were the attitude to cancers, the periodic checkup, the occupation, the average monthly income and the cancer history. As there are wide variations of the middle-aged women¡¯s knowledge about six cancers, the strategy in consideration of individual characters is necessary to improve the middle-aged women¡¯s knowledge of six cancers and to perform the preventive health behavior in the future.
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KEYWORD
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Women, Health Knowledge, Attitude, Health Behavior
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