أطروحة الماجستير للطالبة ديما ابراهيم حتاملة

ناقشت بنجاح طالبة الماجستير ديما حتاملة من قسم الصيدلة السريرية اليوم الخميس الموافق 20/8/2015م أطروحة الماجستير بعنوان:

" COLORECTAL CANCER EARLY WARNING SIGNS AND RISK FACTORS AWARENESS AMONG UNDERGRADUTE STUDENTS IN JORDANIAN UNIVERSITIES "

وقد ضمت لجنة المناقشة الدكتور نزار مهيدات رئيسا وعضوية كل من الدكتور بلال الحسين والدكتور يوسف خضر والدكتور محمد خطاطبه والدكتورة عبلة بصول كممتحن خارجي.

باسم صفحة أصدقاء كلية الصيدلة_ في جامعة العلوم والتكنولوجيا الأردنية نبارك للطالبة ديما حتاملة إتمامها درجة الماجستير في الصيدلة السريرية بنجاح متمنين لها مزيدا من التقدم والنجاح.

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Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of cancer-related death in Jordan. However, lack of sufficient knowledge regards CRC warning signs and its modifiable risk factors
are major contributors to its high mortality rate

Objectives: This study aimed to assess the level of awareness
regards CRC warning signs and risk factors among undergraduate students and to determine their attitudes regards seeking medical advice after noticing CRC symptoms

Method and result: Student-based cross sectional survey was carried out in three different public universities (Jordan University of Science and Technology, Yarmouk University and AL al-Bayt University) over a five month-period. Using standardized questionnaire developed by Cancer Research Center in UK, volunteers were asked about their knowledge regards CRC symptoms, risk factors and their behaviors regards seeking medical advice. A total of 801 questionnaires were completely filled. Vast majority of respondents were female (70.9%) and most of them (81.8%) studied medical-related specialties. Regarding CRC symptoms; (14.3%) of respondents had poor knowledge, (52.9%) had fair knowledge and (32.8%) had good knowledge. Abdominal pain was the most recognized warning signs where (70.8%) of respondents could recall it. In general risk factors awareness was lower than warning signs awareness. About (36.1%) of respondents had poor knowledge, (47.4%) had fair knowledge and (16.5%) had good knowledge. Unhealthy diet was the most recognized risk factor where (32.3%) of respondents could recall it. Furthermore, Female respondents were more aware regarding CRC symptoms. Same findings were reported for participants who aged 20 years or more and for those who had previous experience of cancer. Students who studying medical related specialties were more aware for both CRC symptoms as well as risk factors than those who studying other specialties. Regarding seeking medical attention it was found that about (60.6%) of respondents would seek medical advice within one week of noticing CRC symptoms and (12%) would seek it within two weeks. The mean duration for seeking medical advice was found to be 1.9 (±2.31) weeks

Conclusion: this study revealed that the awareness level of CRC among the studied sample was poor-fair. Therefore, further work should be attempted to enhance the awareness of colorectal cancer even by continuous education events, lectures or campaigns to encourage the early detection CRC and decrease its mortality