Table 3 Stratification of Awareness of Prostate Cancer and Screening Modalities by Demographics
From: Prostate Cancer awareness in the Lebanese population: a cross sectional national survey
Frequency of Pca | Curability of Pca | Pca screening methods | Ideal age for Pca screening | Urological symptoms with Pca | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Frequent, % (n) | p | Yes, % (n) | p | Correct, % (n) | p | Correct, % (n) | p | Yes, % (n) | p | ||
Age | [18; 22] | 42 (134) | < 0.001 | 69.6 (222) | < 0.001 | 0.9 (3) | < 0.001 | 55.2 (176) | < 0.001 | 34.8 (111) | < 0.001 |
[23;30] | 67.4 (194) | 77.8 (224) | 4.2 (12) | 68.8 (198) | 41.7 (120) | ||||||
[31;45] | 66.7 (218) | 79.2 (259) | 6.7 (22) | 73.4 (240) | 37.8 (124) | ||||||
[46;57] | 67.3 (208) | 81.9 (253) | 3.9 (12) | 81.9 (254) | 43.7 (135) | ||||||
> 58 | 58.4 (184) | 79.7 (251) | 4.4 (14) | 71.7 (225) | 30.9 (97) | ||||||
Gender | Male | 57.9 (630) | 0.01 | 75.7 (824) | 0.01 | 4.1 (45) | 0.74 | 70.3 (765) | 0.88 | 37.5 (408) | 0.93 |
Female | 65.7 (309) | 82.1 (386) | 3.8 (18) | 69.9 (328) | 38.1 (179) | ||||||
Marital status | Married | 63.9 (509) | 0.01 | 81.2 (646) | < 0.001 | 5.9 (47) | < 0.001 | 76.1 (605) | < 0.001 | 36.7 (292) | 0.01 |
Single | 56.1 (391) | 74.3 (518) | 2.4 (17) | 64.1 (447) | 38.7 (270) | ||||||
Widow | 42.9 (9) | 47.6 (10) | 0.0 (0) | 42.9 (9) | 22.7 (5) | ||||||
Divorced | 68.2 (30) | 81.8 (36) | 0.0 (0) | 72.7 (32) | 45.5 (20) | ||||||
Educational level | Not Educated | 41.7 (15) | < 0.001 | 47.2 (17) | < 0.001 | 0 (0) | < 0.001 | 56.8 (21) | < 0.001 | 24.3 (9) | < 0.001 |
School | 46.8 (73) | 73.1 (114) | 1.3 (2) | 65.4 (102) | 26.9 (42) | ||||||
High school | 51.5 (246) | 70.9 (339) | 1.5 (7) | 63.2 (302) | 34.9 (167) | ||||||
University | 68.2 (605) | 83.3 (739) | 6.1 (54) | 75.4 (669) | 41.6 (369) | ||||||
Monthly income | Less than 450$ | 50.8 (232) | < 0.001 | 70.5 (323) | < 0.001 | 2.2 (10) | < 0.001 | 61.6 (282) | < 0.001 | 31.4 (144) | < 0.001 |
450$ to 900$ | 55.7 (199) | 75.1 (269) | 1.1 (4) | 65.6 (235) | 34.9 (125) | ||||||
900$ to 1350$ | 64.3 (180) | 78.3 (220) | 5.4 (15) | 71.1 (199) | 36.4 (102) | ||||||
1350$ to 1800$ | 71.7 (134) | 87.2 (163) | 8.0 (15) | 82.4 (154) | 45.7 (85) | ||||||
More than 1800$ | 70.5 (194) | 85.1 (235) | 6.9 (19) | 81.2 (224) | 47.5 (131) | ||||||
Relative with Pca | No | 80.7 (221) | < 0.001 | 86.5 (237) | < 0.001 | 4.7 (13) | 0.229 | 77.0 (211) | < 0.001 | 52.9 (145) | < 0.001 |
Yes | 57.1 (662) | 78.4 (909) | 4.3 (50) | 69.4 (804) | 36.9 (428) | ||||||
Don’t know | 47.1 (57) | 62.8 (76) | 3.3 (4) | 58.7 (71) | 29.8 (36) | ||||||