Breast cancer prevention information seeking behavior and interest on cell phone and text use: a cross-sectional study in Malaysia
Background: Breast cancer is the most common cancer and the second principal cause of cancer deaths among women worldwide, including Malaysia. This study focused on media choice and attempted to determine the communication channels mostly used and preferred by women in seeking information and knowle...
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| author | Akhtari-Zavare, Mehrnoosh Ghanbari-Baghestan, Abbas Abd Latiff, Latiffah Khaniki, Hadi |
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| description | Background: Breast cancer is the most common cancer and the second principal cause of cancer deaths among women worldwide, including Malaysia. This study focused on media choice and attempted to determine the communication channels mostly used and preferred by women in seeking information and knowledge about breast cancer. Materials and methods: A cross sectional study was carried out to examine the breast cancer prevention information seeking behavior among 450 students at one private university in Malaysia. Results: The mean age of respondents was 25±4.3 years. Common interpersonal information sources were doctors, friends, and nurses and common channel information sources were television, brochure, and internet. Overall, 89.9% used cell phones, 46.1% had an interest in receiving cell phone breast cancer prevention messages, 73.9% used text messaging, and 36.7% had an interest in receiving text breast cancer prevention messages. Bivariate analysis revealed significant differences among age, education, nationality and use of cell phones. Conclusions: Assessment of health information seeking behavior is important for community health educators to target populations for program development. |
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| spelling | upm-439712022-02-12T02:38:12Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/43971/ Breast cancer prevention information seeking behavior and interest on cell phone and text use: a cross-sectional study in Malaysia Akhtari-Zavare, Mehrnoosh Ghanbari-Baghestan, Abbas Abd Latiff, Latiffah Khaniki, Hadi Background: Breast cancer is the most common cancer and the second principal cause of cancer deaths among women worldwide, including Malaysia. This study focused on media choice and attempted to determine the communication channels mostly used and preferred by women in seeking information and knowledge about breast cancer. Materials and methods: A cross sectional study was carried out to examine the breast cancer prevention information seeking behavior among 450 students at one private university in Malaysia. Results: The mean age of respondents was 25±4.3 years. Common interpersonal information sources were doctors, friends, and nurses and common channel information sources were television, brochure, and internet. Overall, 89.9% used cell phones, 46.1% had an interest in receiving cell phone breast cancer prevention messages, 73.9% used text messaging, and 36.7% had an interest in receiving text breast cancer prevention messages. Bivariate analysis revealed significant differences among age, education, nationality and use of cell phones. Conclusions: Assessment of health information seeking behavior is important for community health educators to target populations for program development. Asian Pacific Organization for Cancer Prevention 2015 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/43971/1/Breast%20cancer%20prevention%20information%20seeking%20behavior%20and%20interest%20on%20cell%20phone%20and%20text%20use%20a%20cross%20sectional%20study%20in%20Malaysia.pdf Akhtari-Zavare, Mehrnoosh and Ghanbari-Baghestan, Abbas and Abd Latiff, Latiffah and Khaniki, Hadi (2015) Breast cancer prevention information seeking behavior and interest on cell phone and text use: a cross-sectional study in Malaysia. Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention, 16 (4). pp. 1337-1341. ISSN 1513-7368; ESSN: 2476-762X http://journal.waocp.org/?sid=Entrez:PubMed&id=pmid:25743795&key=2015.16.4.1337 10.7314/APJCP.2015.16.4.1337 |
| spellingShingle | Akhtari-Zavare, Mehrnoosh Ghanbari-Baghestan, Abbas Abd Latiff, Latiffah Khaniki, Hadi Breast cancer prevention information seeking behavior and interest on cell phone and text use: a cross-sectional study in Malaysia |
| title | Breast cancer prevention information seeking behavior and interest on cell phone and text use: a cross-sectional study in Malaysia |
| title_full | Breast cancer prevention information seeking behavior and interest on cell phone and text use: a cross-sectional study in Malaysia |
| title_fullStr | Breast cancer prevention information seeking behavior and interest on cell phone and text use: a cross-sectional study in Malaysia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Breast cancer prevention information seeking behavior and interest on cell phone and text use: a cross-sectional study in Malaysia |
| title_short | Breast cancer prevention information seeking behavior and interest on cell phone and text use: a cross-sectional study in Malaysia |
| title_sort | breast cancer prevention information seeking behavior and interest on cell phone and text use: a cross-sectional study in malaysia |
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