优化欧洲抗癌守则,第五版,以提高所有社会经济群体对可避免的癌症风险的认识
Eleni Mantzari1, Katherine Brain2, Kathelijne M H H Bessems3
1Behaviour and Health Research Unit, University of Cambridge, UK.
Molecular oncology
|January 16, 2026
概括
提供癌症风险信息,而不是预防细节,最能提高公众对可预防的癌症风险的认识. 这一发现适用于不同教育水平和不同国家,突出了公共卫生传播的关键策略.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 预防癌症 预防癌症
- 卫生沟通健康沟通
背景情况:
- 癌症是欧盟的主要死亡原因,其中很大一部分是可以预防的.
- 欧洲抗癌规范 (ECAC) 旨在向公众提供有关减少癌症风险的信息.
- 优化ECAC的呈现对于提高所有社会经济群体癌症风险意识至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 评估不同欧洲抗癌守则 (ECAC5) 信息格式在提高人们对可避免的癌症风险的认识方面的有效性.
- 确定哪些信息组件 (风险信息,预防行动,信息长度,图像使用) 最有效地提高公众对癌症风险的认识.
主要方法:
- 一个大规模的在线随机对照试验,涉及来自八个欧洲国家的10,027名参与者.
- 一个2x3x2的因数设计被用来测试10个不同的ECAC5消息格式与"没有消息"的控制.
- 参与者接触到的信息在风险信息的存在,预防行动细节的长度和格式 (仅文本与含图像的文本) 方面有所不同.
主要成果:
- 总体而言,16种可避免的癌症风险的召回率很低 (平均风险为2.40).
- 包含特定癌症风险信息的消息导致这些风险的回忆率最高.
- 添加关于预防行动的信息,改变消息长度或包括图像并没有显著改善风险因素的回忆. 这些影响在各个教育水平和国家之间是一致的.
结论:
- 提供关于癌症风险因素的明确信息比包括预防建议更有效,以提高对这些风险的认识.
- 目前对可预防的癌症风险的认识非常低,这表明需要改进公共卫生沟通策略.
- 未来的研究应该调查如何提高意识转化为行为变化和持续的知识随着时间的推移.
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