Roberts, AL;
Crook, L;
George, H;
Osborne, K;
(2019)
Two-month follow-up evaluation of a cancer awareness training workshop ("Talk Cancer") on cancer awareness, beliefs and confidence of front-line public health staff and volunteers.
Preventive Medicine Reports
, 13
pp. 98-104.
10.1016/j.pmedr.2018.11.017.
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Abstract
People working across the health service, local government, community and voluntary sectors are appropriately placed to have discussions about cancer prevention and early diagnosis with members of the public. Cancer Research UK's training workshop ("Talk Cancer") aims to increase awareness of cancer screening programmes and risk factors, promote more positive beliefs about cancer and increase confidence to discuss cancer with members of the public, among people working in these roles. This study evaluated "Talk Cancer" by surveying 178 trainees immediately before, immediately after, and two months after training in the United Kingdom. Results showed that "Talk Cancer" was effective at promoting and maintaining more positive beliefs about cancer and confidence to discuss cancer. While there was an improvement in awareness of risk factors immediately after the workshop, there was less evidence that this was maintained at two-months, but awareness was improved relative to baseline in most cases. Increased awareness of the national bowel screening programme was maintained at two-months. While awareness that screening programmes do not exist for oral, skin and prostate cancers was not maintained, awareness was higher than baseline. The majority of trainees (86%) indicated they had applied their learning in their role and 59% reported having had more conversations about cancer prevention and early diagnosis since training. The impact of "Talk Cancer" on trainees' beliefs and confidence persists beyond the workshop, however, ongoing support is required to maintain improvements in awareness of cancer risk factors and which cancer types do not have national screening programmes.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Two-month follow-up evaluation of a cancer awareness training workshop ("Talk Cancer") on cancer awareness, beliefs and confidence of front-line public health staff and volunteers |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.pmedr.2018.11.017 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2018.11.017 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY-NC-ND/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Cancer awareness, Cancer prevention, Cancer screening, Community intervention, Early diagnosis, Education, Health promotion, Public health, Training |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Behavioural Science and Health |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10085518 |
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