Knowledge, Attitude and Screening Behaviour of Benue State University Male Students towards Prostate Cancer Awareness

Abstract

The study investigated the influence of knowledge, attitude and

screening behaviour of Benue State University Male Students

towards prostate cancer awareness. Five research questions

and research hypotheses guided the study. The study was a

cross-sectional design utilizing a pretested 34-item Prostate

Cancer Questionnaire (PCQ) (Cronbach’s alpha of 0.62) to collect

information about knowledge, attitude and screening behaviour

regarding prostate cancer among Benue State University Male

students Makurdi, Nigeria. Two hundred and forty-five participants

were sampled for the study by systematic random selection of

male students in Benue state university. Data analysis was done

using mean and standard deviations while multiple regression

analysis was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 and 0.01 levels

of significance respectively using SPSS 16.0 software. Result

showed that the interaction of knowledge, attitude and screening

behaviour significantly influenced prostate cancer awareness,

knowledge (β=0.76; P

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