NEW PUBLICATION: Examining the sociodemographic relationships to beliefs about cancer and chronic disease prevention
Who or what is to blame? Examining sociodemographic relationships to beliefs about causes, control, and responsibility for cancer and chronic disease prevention in Alberta, Canada
The Chronic Disease Prevention (CDP) survey assesses policy influencer and the general public’s knowledge, attitudes and beliefs regarding health policy. The survey looks at support for policies relating to healthy eating, physical activity, tobacco, alcohol, substance misuse, and mental health. The PLACE Research Lab has administered the CDP survey eight times between 2009 and 2021.
Using the 2016 data, Dr. Kimberley Curtin, a Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Candace Nykiforuk’s PLACE Research Lab team, explored the connections between socio-demographics (i.e., sex, age, education, employment, political alignment, etc.) and perceptions of causes, control, and responsibility for cancer and chronic disease prevention. Specifically, the current research looks the perceptions of general public respondents in Alberta, Canada.
Results indicate that men, those with less education, and those with less income are important target groups when promoting health literacy and chronic disease prevention initiatives. Read the folio article here.
Find out more about this work:
Full publication: https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-021-11065-4
Article in the University of Alberta Folio: https://www.ualberta.ca/folio/2021/11/men-less-likely-than-women-to-connect-individual-or-societal-factors-to-cancer-chronic-disease-study.html?fbclid=IwAR02ROFROgykhR5t-8X6R1smlgSROZSYyXP1dRJynhfSeQM_siiHrLg-2pk
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