LECTURES ON THE PREVENTION OF CANCER IN THE COMMUNITY OF SANTA MARIA

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Lissandra Dal Lago¹  Lucimara Volpato¹  Caren Leivas Pozzer¹ 

[1] Universidade Federal de Santa Maria;

关键词: Palestras;    Prevenção;    Câncer;   

DOI  :  10.5007/1807-0221.2009v6n8p26

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Outreach Project realized between April and June of 2008, with the objectives of promoting cancer prevention education among the community of Santa Maria, RS, Brazil, through lectures on the subject, and evaluating the efficacy of this educative approach. Four lectures were done about cancer prevention.  Evaluation questionnaires were distributed to the target audience before and after the lectures. The data was summarized with frequency and average (tables from Epi Info version 6.04). From 61 persons, 22(36%) and 8(16%) had incomplete and complete primary school, respectively; 26 (43%) had complete secondary school; and three (5%) had completed superior education. After the lecture, there were more correct questions about cervical, head and neck, gastric, breast, esophageal, prostate and bladder cancer. There was a small decrease in the number of correct questions about skin and gastrointestinal cancer and no change in the number of correct answers about lung cancer. The lectures were useful for the community, however the way of displaying the subject has to be continued improving for the persons with low educational level.

【 授权许可】

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