致命的癌症信仰与危险的健康行为之间的关系
Maryum Zaidi1, Sayantani Sarkar2, Stella Arakelyan3
1Solomont School of Nursing, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, USA.
Western journal of nursing research
|August 20, 2024
概括
癌症命运主义与吸烟和重度饮酒等高风险健康行为有关. 了解这种联系可以帮助针对特定人群量身定制癌症预防计划.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 行为科学 行为科学
- 预防癌症 预防癌症
背景情况:
- 关于宿命论对与癌症相关的危险健康行为的影响的研究有限.
- 这项研究探讨了命运主义的癌症信仰与烟草吸烟,电子烟使用和大量饮酒等行为之间的联系.
- 该研究控制了在没有先前癌症诊断的成年人中医疗保健自我有效性,社会人口统计学和临床因素.
研究的目的:
- 研究癌症命运主义信仰与参与危险健康行为之间的关系.
- 为了确定是否对命运的信仰会影响增加癌症风险的行为.
- 为个性化癌症预防策略提供见解.
主要方法:
- 利用了2020年健康信息国家趋势调查 (HINTS) 的横截面数据.
- 包括2464名18岁以上的非医疗机构成年人,没有自我报告的癌症病史.
- 采用描述统计和多变量逻辑回归来分析癌症命运性得分与风险健康行为的复合变量之间的关联.
主要成果:
- 大约43%的参与者报告说,他们至少有一种危险的健康行为.
- 在癌症命运主义和危险健康行为之间发现了显著的积极关联.
- 癌症致命性得分的每个单位增加与参与危险健康行为的几率增加30%相关 (OR=1.30,P=.021).
结论:
- 与癌症相关的宿命主义信念与没有癌症病史的成年人中风险健康行为的增加显著相关.
- 研究结果强调了在癌症预防工作中解决宿命论的重要性.
- 通过了解宿命主义和健康行为之间的相互作用,可以开发个性化的外展计划.
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