[Illness cognition and related factors in patients with prostate cancer].

OBJECTIVE: To study the illness cognition and related factors in patients with prostate cancer (PCa). METHODS: Using the convenience-sampling method, we selected 231 PCa patients treated in a general hospital in Xuzhou from October 2019 to October 2020. We conducted a cross-sectional study of the cases based on the general data of the patients and their scores on the Illness Cognition Questionnaire (ICQ). RESULTS: The PCa patients showed a high negative and a low positive illness cognition. The ICQ scores of the patients were high on "helplessness" (13.70 ± 3.54) and low on "acceptance" (16.64 ± 3.37) and "perceived benefits" (13.93 ± 3.76). Age, disease duration, disease stage and number of children were the four factors included in the regression equation of the participants' illness cognition. CONCLUSION: Negative illness cognition is high in PCa patients, higher in those at a younger age, with a longer disease duration, or with more than one child than in those at an older age, with a shorter disease duration, or with only one or no child.

[Benefits of community-based reproductive health service to middle-aged and elderly men].

OBJECTIVE: To explore the role of community-based reproductive health service in improving male reproductive health-related knowledge, behavior and psychology in middle-aged and elderly men. METHODS: We recruited 136 men aged 40－69 years from 5 community health service centers in Xuzhou for this self-control study from July to August 2019. We carried out a 4-item health education among the subjects concerning reproductive health knowledge, reproductive system diseases, healthy life, and enjoying health. Before and at 6 months after education, we evaluated the effects of intervention using the General Condition Questionnaire, Reproductive System Symptoms Questionnaire, Male Reproductive Health-Related Knowledge, Attitude and Behavior Questionnaire, and the Chinese version of Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale. RESULTS: At 6 months after intervention, the subjects showed significantly increased scores on healthy eating habits, male reproductive health cognation and psychological resilience, and decreased unhealthy behaviors and positive rate of reproductive system symptoms as compared with those before intervention (all P < 0.05). The cost-effectiveness ratio of the study was 7.75. CONCLUSIONS: Community-based reproductive health service can effectively improve the reproductive health-related knowledge and psychology, eating habits and healthy behaviors of middle-aged and elderly men. And it has a high cost-effectiveness ratio and is worthy of promotion in other communities.