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Attitudes And Beliefs Towards Prostate Cancer Screenings And Diagnosis Among Zimbabwean Physicians, Adoniah Mavura Mukona
Attitudes And Beliefs Towards Prostate Cancer Screenings And Diagnosis Among Zimbabwean Physicians, Adoniah Mavura Mukona
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Zimbabwean men at risk of developing prostate cancer (PC) are diagnosed late or not at all. A cross sectional, quantitative study was done in Zimbabwe to establish physicians' attitudes and beliefs towards PC screening and diagnosis. Descriptive statistics were obtained to determine physicians' beliefs and attitudes using the Physician Attitudes and Beliefs Questionnaire Survey. The instrument incorporated validated instruments, the Burns' Cancer Belief Scale and Physician Survey on Prostate Cancer Screening, and demographic questions to measure specific independent variables, potentially influencing attitudes and beliefs. Means and standard deviations were conducted for continuous variables for beliefs and attitudes, and frequencies and …