Mostafa Alavi-Moghaddam, Arman Zeinaddini-Meymand, Soleiman Ahmadi, Aryan Shirani
Teaching clinical reasoning to medical students: A brief report of case-based clinical reasoning approach
Journal of education and health promotion
despite increasing incidence colorectal cancer crc egyptian population still seems significant lack awareness regarding disease study aimed assess egyptian populations awareness crc regarding risk factors screening procedures appropriate responses diagnosis crosssectional study conducted egypt july 2022 march 2023 recruited convenient sample adults seven governorates representing different geographic areas socioeconomic educational backgrounds help validated bowel cancer awareness measure cam version 21 modified arabic questionnaire validated pilot study including 30 patients presented google form shared via online methods facetoface interviews questionnaire provided numerical categorical data analyzed accordingly chisquare fisher exact manwhitney test used compare colorectal cancer poor good knowledge groups logistic regression analysis conducted predict factors affected awareness level study population nine hundred forty individuals participated survey ages ranged 18 86 years old average 3738 1222 years mean knowledge score 1429 705 37 participants 71 poor knowledge crc participants 641 chose colonoscopy best screening modality followed abdominal ct 278 fecal occult blood 155 study revealed significant differences participants good poor knowledge colorectal cancer 785 participants good crc knowledge lived cities 854 attained university higher educational level 872 nonsmokers p 005 general lack awareness colorectal cancer among egyptian population especially among rural lower educational levels health education campaigns required enhance crc prevention efforts egypt