Abstract:
BACKGROUND: Prostate cancer is always cancer of prostate gland in male and the is
burden of the world. Its increasing is due to western diet consumption, advanced age, family
history of prostate cancer, ethnicity and less physical activity as risk factors of Prostate
cancer. However, disparities in prostate cancer screening among old men and other risk
reduction behaviors are a big test; the intention of this study was to assess Risks perception
and risks reduction behaviors for prostate cancer prevention among men admitted at Kigali
university teaching hospital and Rwanda military hospital within internal medicine and
surgical department.
METHODOLOGY :This study was quantitative cross section descriptive study design, nonprobability sampling method was used, the sample size was 156 men and target population
was 45years old men and above who were hospitalized in internal medicine and surgical
department. The study sites were Rwanda military hospital and University teaching hospital
of Kigali, structured questionnaire was distributed to the participants, SPSS v21 was used to
analyze data. Descriptive analysis , frequencies and percentages and chi-square test was used
to determine relationship between variables.
RESULTS: Finding from this study showed that (46.1%) were aged between 56-65 and
(37.8%) had secondary educational level and (85.3%) had no risk of prostate cancer in
family. Also findings showed Positive association between perception and social
demographic data: level of education (P-value 0.030), and in this study the statistic tests
revealed that there were significant association between risk reduction behaviors and
perception about prostate cancer (Pv <.023, Pv<.011).
CONCLUSION : The study findings demonstrated bad perception on risk age of prostate
cancer and screening behavior
The ministry of health may put in place teaching programs saying about prostate cancer
awareness and prostate cancer prevention.
Health care workers may do more research on prostate cancer prevention.
Results from this study may be a base line on future conducting project research on Prostate
cancer in Rwanda
