Sidiany Mendes Pimentel, Marla Andréia Garcia de Avila, Vinnicius Dias Alves de Medeiros, Rafaela Aparecida Prata, Hélio Rubens de Carvalho Nunes, Juliana Bastoni da Silva
Factors related to health literacy among Brazilian adolescents: cross-sectional study
Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S P
colorectal cancer crc third leading cause cancer second cause cancerrelated deaths world despite infrastructure availability organized screening programs participation screening programs less set goals considering importance informing society prevention early detection colorectal cancer symptoms positive impact mobile health technologies present research conducted aim designing evaluating colon cancer mobile application present research conducted two phases software design evaluation first phase software prepared using cascade method first educational content related colorectal cancer collected expert panel participation 10 specialists software evaluated alpha beta testing initial version approved users terms simplicity usability second phase parallel clinical randomized trial study conducted aim investigating effect colon cancer mobile application early detection colorectal cancer stage 204 volunteers participated inclusion criteria age 1885 years owning smartphone ability read write participants randomized control intervention groups intervention group educated colon cancer application education colorectal cancer control group educated pamphlet education groups screened colorectal cancer symptoms results compared software evaluation phase application used 204 users stage 84 412 women 120 588 men average standard deviation age 4753 1368 participated participants randomized two groups 103 people average standard deviation age 4762 1465 intervention group 101 people average standard deviation age 4744 1270 control group significant differences demographic characteristics age gender marriage occupation instruction level digestive disease history cancer history cancer risk factors family history cancer two groups p 005 mannwhitney u test indicated significant difference two groups participants selfassessment willingness screening results assessment colorectal cancer p 005 results research indicated positive impact colon cancer application abilities users selfassessment colon cancer therefore based findings concluded use colon cancer mobile application effective colon cancer prevention selfcare study registered iranian registry clinical trials httpsirctbehdashtgovir 1322024 irct id irct20210131050189n9