Saudi Population Awareness Regrading Methods of Colorectal Cancer Screening
Mohammed Abdelrazik
Department of General Surgery, College of Medicine, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Osamah Zeid Aldakkan
Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Afnan Abdaljabbar Almurashi
Ibn Sina Hospital, Makkah, Saudi Arabia.
Balsam Ghazi Alshareef
College of Medicine, Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia.
Saad Abdulmalik Almohareb
Vision Collages, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Khuloud Hussein Alshaya
King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia.
Reema Saleh Alzahrani
King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Mohammed Ahmed Algarni
King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Miad Matuq Alosaimi
Vision Collages, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Khames T. Alzahrani *
King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Aims: To assess the level of knowledge about colorectal cancer screening methods among the population in Saudi Arabia.
Study Design: A cross-sectional study
Place and Duration of Study: General Surgery Department, between January 2021 and November 2022.
Methodology: This was a cross-sectional, survey-based study conducted in Saudi Arabia. Data was collected using a predesigned self-administered online questionnaire. Inclusion criteria include Saudi male and female between 18-65 years in Saudi Arabia. Then data were analyzed by the SPSS program, version 25 at a level of significance of 0.05.
Results: A total of randomly taken 794 participants who filled our questionnaire according to the inclusion criteria. Most of our participants (67.1%) were females and 32.9% of them were males. Only 17.5% of the participants were less than 20 years old, 62.5% of them were between 20 and 30 years old and 20% were more than 30 years old. Most of our participants (58.3%) were university educated,
Conclusion: CRC screening were not well known in Saudi Arabia. Educational programs are compulsory and should target people at risk.
Keywords: Colorectal cancer, screening, Saudi population