• Relationship between health and awareness of timely screening test
  • Shaghayegh Soleimanipour,1,*
    1. Researcher and scientist in the field of medical health and artificial intelligence


  • Introduction: Screening which is one of the most important ways of prevention and prevention of cancer is proposed and made in almost all over the world in order to reduce the cancer burden The main purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between the perception of cancer screening and making and the perception of health
  • Methods: Two questionnaires were used in the study The first questionnaire included questions on demographic characteristics and canser screenings. The second survey was Health Perception Scale The study was analyzed with three hundred and twenty two participants
  • Results: The mean age of the study group was forty two and sixty five percent of the study group was female. When examined according to the knowledge of cancer screening done; eighty three percent In a community of two hundred and sixty seven people stated that he knew. When these two hundred and sixty seven people were asked what cancer screening they were aware of seventy seven percent reported that they had breast cancer Forty seven percent had colon cancer and Seventy four percent had been screened for cervical cancer thirty nine percent at least once said he had the scan sixty three percent of women aged forty years and older had mammography fifty eight percent of women aged thirty and over had pap smear twenty two percent of individuals aged fifty and over had a hidden blood test in the stool fourteen percent stated that he had colonoscopy. The mean health perception score calculated based on the health perception scale of the study group was fifty There is a significant correlation between health perception screening and cervical and breast cancer screening.
  • Conclusion: There is a limited limited age range between health perception score and cancer screening, and more information and training studies especially for colorectal cancer screening are recommended to increase the awareness of cancer screening
  • Keywords: cancer colorectal cancer breast cancer