Prostate Care Beyond Forty: A Quasi-Experimental Intervention to Enhance Awareness, Attitude and Practices regarding Prostate Cancer among Egyptian men
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Background: the prevalence of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH) increases after the age of forty years. BPH is one of the most common causes of lower urinary tract symptoms that needs more attention. The study aimed to assess the effectiveness of an intervention designed to enhance awareness, attitude and preventive practices related to prostate cancer among the Egyptian men aged forty and above. Methods: quasi experimental study was used and a convenient sample technique was adopted to involve 200 participants living in Damanhur city and Beni-Suef city, Egypt. Structured questionnaires composed of 5 parts collected data about socio-demographic characteristics, symptoms of prostate hyperplasia, awareness about prostate cancer, practices to prevent occurrence and a scale to assess attitudes regarding prostate cancer screening. Results: Results highlighted the positive effects of the intervention on participants' knowledge, practices, and attitudes regarding prostatic hyperplasia. Significant improvements were observed post-intervention compared to pre-intervention levels, as indicated by the Chi-square test results (X2 = 57.6, p < .00001 for knowledge; X2 = 23.04, p < .00001 for practices; X2 = 42.4, p < .00001 for attitudes). Conclusion: The findings underscored the positive impact of the intervention on participants' knowledge, practices, and attitudes regarding prostatic hyperplasia. The study recommended regular screening and implements targeted health education programs to enhance awareness about prostatic hyperplasia, improve attitudes, and preventive measures.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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