Cancer literacy as a mediator for cancer screening behaviour in Korean adults

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12289366
AutoresHee Yun Lee (0000-0003-3499-6304, School of Social Work; College of Education and Human Development; University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; St. Paul Minnesota USA, autor de correspondencia), Taeho Greg Rhee (0000-0003-4961-3361, Department of Pharmaceutical Care and Health Systems; College of Pharmacy; University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Minneapolis Minnesota USA), Nam Keol Kim (Department of Educational Psychology; College of Education and Human Development; University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Minneapolis Minnesota USA)
Año2015
Volumen24
Número5
Páginase34-e42
Fecha de publicación2015-05-14
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHealth & Social Care in the Community (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0966-0410 • E-ISSN: 1365-2524
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/hsc.12243
PMID25975449
OpenAlexW1517602738
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas24

This study investigates the cancer literacy level in Korean adults and examines whether cancer literacy plays a mediating role in the relationship between population characteristics and cancer screening behaviours. We collected data from 585 community-dwelling adults in Korea using self-administered surveys and face-to-face interviews from October to December in 2009. Guided by Andersen's behavioural model, we used a structural equation model to estimate the effect of cancer literacy as a mediator and found that cancer literacy mediated cancer screening behaviour. In the individual path analysis models, cancer literacy played a significant mediating role for the use of eastern medicine, fatalism, health status and the number of chronic diseases. When controlling for other relevant covariates, we found that in the optimal path model, cancer literacy played a mediating role in the relationship between the use of eastern medicine and self-rated health status as well as cancer screening behaviour. Thus, developing community-based cancer education programmes and training clinical practitioners in eastern medicine clinics about the importance of informing their patients about regular cancer screening may be an option to boost cancer literacy and screening behaviour in Korea

Cancer · Cancer screening · Environmental health · Fatalism · Health care · Health literacy · Literacy · Path analysis (statistics · Population · Structural equation modeling · Global Cancer Incidence and Screening · Health Literacy and Information Accessibility · Medicine · Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare · Psychology · Gerontology · Internal Medicine