1.A Comparative Study of Life Styles between Lung Cancer Patients and Healthy Adults.
Yanggyeong YOO ; Youngrye PARK ; Eunhi CHOI
Asian Oncology Nursing 2013;13(3):136-144
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to provide basic data for the development of a life habit improvement program, designed to prevent occurrence of lung cancer for adults, by comparing various factors related to cancer outbreak. METHODS: The study was designed to be a retrospective comparison survey study of the lung cancer patient group and healthy adult group. 91 lung cancer patients visited J university hospital and 105 conveniently-selected healthy adults were recruited from October 2011 to August 2012. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, chi2-test/t-test and logistic regression with the SPSS program. RESULTS: Active smoking, secondhand smoking and frequency of meat consumption emerged as risk factors of lung cancer occurrence for adults. CONCLUSION: As a result of comparative analysis of lung cancer patients and healthy adults' various lifestyle-related cancer risk factors, non-smoking, avoiding secondhand smoke and reducing meat consumption were suggested as a means of preventing the occurrence of lung cancer.
Adult*
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Economics
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Humans
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Life Style*
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Logistic Models
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Lung Neoplasms*
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Lung*
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Meat
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Retrospective Studies
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Risk Factors
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Smoke
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Smoking
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Tobacco Smoke Pollution