Risk Perception of Skin Cancer at a High-Altitude Hospital

• Autores: Huanca Huirse, Nuria Leticia, Roque Roque, Joel Sack, Laurel Vargas, Verónica Nélida, Quispe Sancho, Alan Wenceslao
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2020
• Institución: Universidad Ricardo Palma
• Repositorio: Revista URP - Revista de la Facultad de Medicina Humana
• Lenguaje: español; inglés
• OAI Identifier: oai:oai.revistas.urp.edu.pe:article/2895
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.urp.edu.pe/index.php/RFMH/article/view/2895
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto

Objective: To determine the level of risk perception of skin cancer in a population from Cusco. Materials and methods: It is an observational descriptive cross-sectional study and was aplied in a skin cancer screening campaign in Cusco. The applied questionnaire was designed and validated by Morales-Sánchez M and Cols, and it measures the risk perception of skin cancer. The reported Cronbach's alpha value is 0.824. Results: The majority of patients were female (64.7%), average age was 44.9 years (SD: 14.2) and the 51.0% had higher education level. The median hours of sun exposure was 4 (95% CI: 1-6), the most frequent origin was from Cusco (77.6%) and most of the population have normal risk perception of skin cancer (65.8%). Conclusion: The risk perception of skin cancer was normal in the majority of the population. Keywords: Skin Neoplasms, Perception, Health Behavior, Attitude