Table 7.
The assessment of health education and health promotion activities (n = 122).
| Variable | n | Assessment of health education and health promotion (%) | Have you ever been informed about cancer prevention at a primary care clinic in the commune? (%) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unsatisfactory | Satisfactory | Good | Very good | p | No | Yes | p | |||
| Total | 122 | 41 | 21.3 | 19.7 | 3.3 | 64.8 | 20.5 | |||
| Age | <25 | 9 | 33.3 | 11.1 | 22.2 | 11.1 | 0.882a | 44.4 | 33.3 | 0.6297b |
| 25–44 | 39 | 43.6 | 25.6 | 15.4 | 0 | 74.4 | 17.9 | |||
| 45–64 | 50 | 42 | 20 | 26 | 4 | r = 0.015 | 60 | 22 | ||
| 65 or older | 24 | 37.5 | 20.8 | 12.5 | 4.2 | 66.7 | 16.7 | |||
| Gender | F | 88 | 43.2 | 15.9 | 22.7 | 3.4 | 0.8145b | 59.1 | 25 | 0.0329d |
| M | 34 | 35.3 | 35.3 | 11.8 | 2.9 | 79.4 | 8.8 | |||
| Education | Primary | 21 | 23.8 | 19 | 28.6 | 9.5 | 57.1 | 14.3 | 0.232b | |
| Lower secondary | 2 | 50 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 0.202a | 0 | 50 | ||
| Vocational | 32 | 40.6 | 31.3 | 6.3 | 3.1 | r = −0.13 | 75 | 9.4 | ||
| Secondary | 43 | 48.8 | 11.6 | 25.6 | 2.3 | 67.4 | 23.3 | |||
| Higher | 24 | 41.7 | 29.2 | 16.7 | 0 | 58.3 | 33.3 | |||
| Professional status | Employed | 67 | 35.8 | 29.9 | 17.9 | 1.5 | 0.6357c | 65.7 | 19.4 | 0.3574e |
| Retired | 46 | 47.8 | 10.9 | 19.6 | 4.3 | 31 67.4 | 21.7 | |||
| Unemployed | 4 | 50 | 125 | 25 | 0 | 75 | 0 | |||
| Students | 5 | 40 | 0 | 40 | 20 | 20 | 40 | |||
| Occupation | Farmers | 65 | 50.8 | 20 | 13.8 | 1.5 | 0.1056c | 73.8 | 10.8 | <0.0001e |
| Other manual workers | 20 | 30 | 25 | 5 | 10 | 80 | 5 | |||
| Office workers or other specialists | 13 | 38.5 | 15.4 | 38.5 | 0 | 53.8 | 38.5 | |||
| Health professionals | 8 | 12.5 | 25 | 50 | 0 | 12.5 | 87.5 | |||
| Teachers / educators | 7 | 14.3 | 42.9 | 28.6 | 0 | 42.9 | 42.9 | |||
| Unemployed | 9 | 44.4 | 11.1 | 33.3 | 11.1 | 44.4 | 22.2 | |||
| Economic status | Bad | 5 | 0 | 40 | 20 | 0 | 40 | 40 | 0.7379b | |
| Average | 40 | 37.5 | 20 | 20 | 5 | 0.2588a | 65 | 12.5 | ||
| Good | 71 | 45.1 | 21.1 | 19.7 | 2.8 | r = −0.11 | 66.2 | 22.5 | ||
| Very good | 6 | 50 | 16.7 | 16.7 | 0 | 66.7 | 33.3 | |||
| Attitude to screening | Does not attend | 60 | 41.7 | 25 | 13.3 | 3.3 | 0.2069b | 73.3 | 11.7 | 0.0043d |
| Attends | 53 | 37.7 | 17 | 28.3 | 3.8 | 52.8 | 34 | |||
| Family history of cancer | No | 45 | 40.5 | 26.2 | 21.4 | 0 | 0.7456b | 61.9 | 21.4 | 0.8645d |
| Yes | 66 | 41.2 | 20.6 | 19.1 | 4.4 | 64.7 | 20.6 | |||
n, group size;
Spearman's rank correlation coefficient;
Chi-squared test for trend;
Kruskal-Wallis;
Pearson's chi-squared test;
Fisher's exact test.