在癌症患者中对COVID-19的风险感知和避免预防性行为
Mehdi Khezeli1, Asghar Tavan2, Sajjad Narimani3,4
1Social Development and Health Promotion Research Center, Health Institute Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences Kermanshah Iran.
Health science reports
|July 11, 2023
概括
癌症患者 癌症患者
科学领域:
- 在瘤学瘤学.
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 行为科学 行为科学
背景情况:
- 愿意采取2019年新冠肺炎疾病 (COVID-19) 的预防行为受到风险感知的影响.
- 癌症患者面临严重COVID-19并发症的高风险,因此他们的预防行为至关重要.
- 了解风险感知是促进这种脆弱人群中COVID-19预防策略的关键.
研究的目的:
- 研究癌症患者避免COVID-19的预防行为.
- 在COVID-19大流行期间识别影响癌症患者预防行为的因素.
主要方法:
- 一项涉及伊朗阿尔达比尔伊玛目霍梅尼医院200名癌症患者的横截面分析研究.
- 采用了便利抽样,从2020年7月到8月收集数据.
- 一个由研究人员开发的问卷,基于扩展并行过程模型,评估了COVID-19风险感知;使用皮尔森相关性和线性回归分析的数据.
主要成果:
- 响应效率 (12.6 ± 2.2) 的平均得分最高,而防御性回避 (8 ± 2.8) 在扩展并行过程模型构造中最低.
- 线性回归分析显示,恐惧 (β=0.242,p>0.001) 和感知严重程度 (β=0.191,p=0.008) 是防御性回避的重要预测因素.
- 该研究包括200名参与者 (109名男性,91名女性),平均年龄为48±17岁.
结论:
- 感知到的严重程度和恐惧显著预测了癌症患者防御性避免COVID-19预防行为.
- 提供准确可靠的信息对于减轻恐惧和鼓励采取预防措施至关重要.
- 干预措施应解决恐惧和感知严重性的问题,以提高癌症患者的COVID-19预防坚持.
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