XXXX Awareness and Knowledge: Is It the Same? Exploratory Study in a Mixed-Gender Population.

@entity5 @entity1 @entity10523
UNASSIGNED: @entity5 ( @entity5 ) is among the most common @entity5 in the young male. Awareness plays an important role, because delay in diagnosis affects outcome. @entity10523 ( @entity10523 ) is controversial, but recent evidence shows some cost benefits in performing this exam versus a late-stage diagnosis. The aims of this study are to determine and compare awareness for @entity5 and @entity10523 in males and females with the actual knowledge to this disease in an academic population. An exploratory study using an online questionnaire about @entity5 and @entity10523 was performed in a public university. Answers were collected and submitted to statistical analysis. A total of 815 @entity1 -507 males (62.2  %) and 308 females (37.7  %)-answered the survey. The @entity1 that responded that they were aware of @entity5 were 399/507 (78.7  %) males and 275/308 (89.3  %) females. About half (48.9  %) of male and 42.2  % of female respondents did not answered correctly to most common symptom, and only 15  % of males and 25  % of females answered to the question on age at diagnosis. Both gender subjects rated @entity10523 as very important, and the majority of females were motivated to advise male partners or friends to perform @entity10523 . This study reported a good awareness on @entity5 and @entity10523 , but comparing to the correct knowledge about this disease, results are disappointing. The actual knowledge about @entity5 is low and comparable in @entity1 and @entity1 . @entity1 revealed a better understanding of this disease and importance of @entity10523 , suggesting that they can assume an important role in promoting health behaviors in @entity1 .
