Table 2 Level of knowledge of prostate cancer of participants who had heard of prostate cancer according to demographic variables
From: Knowledge of prostate cancer among males attending a urology clinic, a South African study
Variable | Level of knowledge (number of correct answers) | p-value | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Low (0–4) | Moderate (5–9) | High (10–14) | |||||
n | % | N | % | n | % | ||
Race | |||||||
Black (n = 102) | 26 | 25.5 | 73 | 71.6 | 3 | 2.9 | 0.0596 |
Caucasian (n = 39) | 4 | 10.3 | 30 | 76.9 | 5 | 12.8 | |
Coloured (n = 12) | 2 | 16.7 | 9 | 75.0 | 1 | 8.3 | |
Age group | |||||||
35–44 years (n = 44) | 11 | 25.0 | 31 | 70.5 | 2 | 4.5 | 0.1736 |
45–54 years (n = 44) | 13 | 29.6 | 29 | 65.9 | 2 | 4.5 | |
55–64 years (n = 41) | 8 | 19.5 | 31 | 76.6 | 2 | 4.9 | |
65–74 years (n = 25) | 1 | 4.0 | 21 | 84.0 | 3 | 12.0 | |
≥75 years (n = 4) | 0 | 0 | 4 | 100 | 0 | 0 | |
Language | |||||||
Afrikaans (n = 120) | 23 | 19.2 | 88 | 73.3 | 9 | 7.5 | 0.4509 |
English (n = 106) | 19 | 17.9 | 81 | 76.4 | 6 | 5.7 | |
Sesotho (n = 101) | 24 | 23.7 | 74 | 73.3 | 3 | 3.0 | |
isiZulu (n = 35) | 9 | 25.7 | 22 | 62.9 | 4 | 11.4 | |
Marital status | |||||||
Married (n = 111) | 7 | 24.1 | 21 | 72.4 | 1 | 3.5 | 0.8854 |
Unmarried (n = 29) | 23 | 20.7 | 80 | 72.1 | 8 | 7.2 | |
Divorced (n = 17) | 3 | 17.7 | 14 | 82.3 | 0 | 0 | |
Level of school education | |||||||
None (n = 5) | 0 | 0 | 5 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0.0335 |
Primary (n = 45) | 14 | 31.1 | 31 | 68.9 | 0 | 0 | |
Secondary (n = 80) | 17 | 21.2 | 56 | 70.0 | 7 | 8.8 | |
Tertiary (n = 28) | 2 | 7.1 | 24 | 85.7 | 2 | 7.1 | |
Employment | |||||||
Unemployed (n = 41) | 14 | 34.2 | 27 | 65.8 | 0 | 0 | 0.0290 |
Employed (n = 40) | 7 | 17.5 | 30 | 75.0 | 3 | 7.5 | |
Self-employed (n = 19) | 6 | 31.6 | 11 | 57.9 | 2 | 10.5 | |
Pensioner (n = 55) | 6 | 10.9 | 45 | 81.8 | 4 | 7.3 | |
Screening test done | |||||||
Yes (n = 43) | 4 | 9.3 | 36 | 83.7 | 3 | 7.0 | 0.1109 |
No (n = 109) | 26 | 23.9 | 77 | 70.6 | 6 | 5.5 | |