DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2017.v05i10.027

Pages: 3935-3939

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among Nigerian men and the second most common cause of death from cancer in men worldwide. This study assesses the knowledge of prostate cancer and attitude towards screening among male patients in federal medical center, Ido Ekiti, Ekiti State. This study is a descriptive cross sectional study. Self administered structured questionnaires were used to collect information from patients attending urology clinic in a tertiary institution. Descriptive and inferential statistics was used to analyze the captured data at 0.05 level of significance. A response rate of 85.8% was recorded. Knowledge of prostate cancer was generally poor but about 46.0% of the respondents agreed that incidence of prostate cancer increases with age and only about one-quarter (n=25; 26.6%) of the respondents knew that prostate specific antigen (PSA) and digital rectal examination (DRE) are screening methods for prostate cancer. Attitude towards screening was also poor. Result shows that there was a significant relationship between educational level (p=0.008), knowledge of prostate cancer (p=0.006) and willingness to screen. There is a low level of knowledge of prostate cancer among respondents and their attitude towards screening is relatively poor, hence there is urgent need to increase awareness through various means such as campaign, media, and outpatients clinics.