Knowledge, Awareness, and Practice of Prostate-Specific Antigen Test among Academicians in A Public University, Malaysia.

Hassim Ali, Mazatul Asmirah (2021) Knowledge, Awareness, and Practice of Prostate-Specific Antigen Test among Academicians in A Public University, Malaysia. [Project Paper] (Submitted)

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Abstract

Introduction: Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test is one of the way to prevent prostate cancer incidence by detection of the cancerous cells at an early stages and enable to introduce accurately intervention for the disease. Objective: To determine the level of knowledge, awareness, and practice of PSA test among academicians in Universiti Putra Malaysia. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out among 165 respondents recruited by using multistage sampling method in which a self- administered online survey questionnaire consist of 4 section was used. The sections includes (A) sociodemographic data, (B) practice of PSA test, (C) knowledge of prostate cancer and PSA test and (D) awareness of prostate cancer and PSA test. The questionnaire will be distributed through email to respective academicians. The data collection will be done within 3 months. This study will used SPSS Statistics version 22.0 for data entry and analysis. For descriptive analysis, mean, standard deviation, frequency and percentage will be used. To determine the relationship between knowledge, awareness and practice of PSA test, logistic regression will be used. Confidence level and margin of error are set at 95% and 5% respectively. Results: Overall, the mean age of total respondents is 42.94±7.571. Out of 85, 61 (71.8%) represented Malay respondents, and 17 (20.0%) represented Chinese respondents whereas 7 (8.2%) represented Indian respondents. The data shows the mean knowledge of total respondents on prostate-specific antigen test was 17.729±2.945 and the mean awareness of total respondents on prostate-specific antigen test is 32.306±6.651. From the result, found that only 9 (10.6%) out of 85 has good practice of PSA test in their lifetime. Among those who has taken, 7 (8.2%) took PSA test once and 2 (2.4%) has took the test more than once. The findings showed that there was a significant relationship between sociodemographic characteristics of age and race with knowledge where p-value was 0.05 and awareness of PSA test where p-value was 0.001 and 0.016. Similarly, significant finding found between awareness and practice of PSA test whereby the p-value was 0.042. Conclusion: Based on the study findings, found that age and race of an individual are the most highly possible to influence their practice of PSA test. Therefore, an individual need to have self-awareness of the disease and prevention measure to take in order to have a good quality of life in longer time. Keywords: Knowledge, awareness, practice, prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test

Item Type:	Project Paper
Faculty:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Science
Depositing User:	Mr Khoirul Asrimi Md Nor
Date Deposited:	21 Aug 2023 04:08
Last Modified:	21 Aug 2023 04:08
URI:	http://psaspb.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/1091

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