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Knowledge of colorectal cancer risk factors and screening recommendations: a crosssectional study of regional Australian general practice patients

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posted on 2025-05-11, 14:02 authored by Natalie Dodd, Mariko CareyMariko Carey, Elise MansfieldElise Mansfield
Higher levels of knowledge relating to colorectal cancer (CRC) are positively associated with CRC screening behaviour. However, knowledge of CRC risk factors and screening recommendations is low. The aim of this study was to examine knowledge of CRC risk factors and CRC screening recommendations among general practice patients aged 18–85 years, and the sociodemographic characteristics associated with knowledge.

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Journal title

Public Health Research & Practice

Volume

27

Issue

5

Article number

e2751748

Publisher

Sax Institute

Language

  • en, English

College/Research Centre

Faculty of Health and Medicine

School

School of Medicine and Public Health

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© 2017 Dodd et al. This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence, which allows others to redistribute, adapt and share this work non-commercially provided they attribute the work and any adapted version of it is distributed under the same Creative Commons licence terms. See: www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0

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