Awareness of lifestyle risk factors for cancer and heart disease among adults in the UK
Awareness of lifestyle risk factors for cancer and heart disease among adults in the UK
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DOI：
10.1016/j.pec.2008.08.003
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发表时间：
2009-02-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Wardle, Jane
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作者：
Sanderson, Saskia C.;Waller, Jo;Wardle, Jane
目的：为了检查和比较认识的生活方式的危险因素，癌症和心脏病在一个单一的英国代表sample.Methods：两个开放式的问题，癌症和心脏病的危险因素包括在一个以人口为基础的调查1747名成年人。响应被编码为四种生活方式与这两种疾病的联系：吸烟，吃不健康的饮食，饮酒过量和身体inactivity.Results：生活方式的危险因素的认识是低的两种疾病，虽然心脏病高于癌症。受访者确定的平均数字是2.1（心脏病）和1.4（癌症）。最强的预测因素是教育程度（均为p < 0.001）。结论：这些研究结果表明，公众对生活方式对常见疾病，特别是癌症的影响的认识很低。实践启示：不健康的生活方式对健康状况不佳和死亡率有重要贡献。提高公众对生活方式与普遍恐惧的疾病之间联系的认识，可能有助于人们了解其行为对健康的潜在影响，并鼓励他们做出急需的生活方式改变。需要努力改善关于生活方式风险因素如何影响这些重要疾病的机会的公共卫生信息。(C)2008年由Elsevier爱尔兰有限公司出版。
Objective: To examine and compare awareness of lifestyle risk factors for cancer and heart disease in a single UK representative sample.Methods: Two open-ended questions about cancer and heart disease risk factors were included in a population-based survey of 1747 adults. Responses were coded for four lifestyles with established links to both diseases: smoking, eating an unhealthy diet, drinking excessive alcohol and physical inactivity.Results: Awareness of lifestyle risk factors was low for both diseases, although higher for heart disease than cancer. The average number identified by respondents was 2.1 (heart disease) and 1.4 (cancer). The strongest predictor was education (both p < 0.001). Awareness that physical inactivity is a cancer risk factor was particularly low at 7%.Conclusion: These findings suggest that public awareness of the impact of lifestyle on commonly feared diseases, especially cancer, is low.Practice implications: Unhealthy lifestyles make a significant contribution to ill health and mortality. Increased public awareness of the links between lifestyles and commonly feared diseases might help people understand the potential health consequences of their actions and encourage them to make much-needed lifestyle changes. Efforts are needed to improve public health messages about how lifestyle risk factors impact oil the chances of developing these important diseases. (C) 2008 Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd.