■非洲癌症的流行病学负担,尤其是尼日利亚,在过去的几十年中,由于暴露于众多风险因素以及对各种神话和误解的信念,这种情况一直在显着增加。牧师可以在消除人们对癌症的这些神话和误解方面发挥关键作用。因此,这项研究旨在回顾流行病学负担,危险因素,以及与癌症有关的神话以及牧师在消除尼日利亚癌症神话中的作用。
■本文是一篇叙述性评论,它依赖于通过对包括PubMed在内的多个电子数据库上的相关文章进行彻底的文献搜索而获得的次要来源,谷歌学者,和WebofScience。出版书籍,期刊文章,根据本研究的目标,我们参考了其他用英语编写的出版材料。这篇综述使用了理论和实证论文。
癌症与危险因素有关,包括接触化学品,紫外线辐射,有害烟草和酒精的使用,接触人乳头瘤病毒(HPV),这些因素可能会随着年龄而变化,文化信仰(神话和误解),和社会经济因素等。牧师,然而,在消除尼日利亚的癌症神话方面发挥着至关重要的作用。这些角色包括咨询,倡导,教育,和心理社会支持,这些支持可能受到精神模糊等挑战的限制,医疗保健提供者培训不足,时间/资源有限。这些挑战可以通过培训医疗保健提供者和在尼日利亚医疗保健中纳入牧师实践来解决。
■在尼日利亚,牧师在消除癌症神话中的作用至关重要,尽管面临众多挑战。因此,紧急解决这些挑战将有助于确保尼日利亚有效的牧师实践。
UNASSIGNED: The epidemiological burden of cancer in Africa, and Nigeria in particular, has been increasing significantly over the past few decades due to exposure to numerous risk factors as well as belief in various myths and misconceptions.
Chaplains can play crucial roles in dispelling these myths and misconceptions about cancer among people. Therefore, this study seeks to review the epidemiological burden, risk factors, and myths relating to cancer and the roles of
chaplains in dispelling cancer myths in Nigeria.
UNASSIGNED: This paper is a narrative review that relied on secondary sources obtained through a thorough literature search of relevant articles on multiple electronic databases including PubMed, Google Scholar, and Web of Science. Published books, journal articles, and other published materials that were written in English were consulted in line with the objectives of this study. Both theoretical and empirical papers were used for this review.
UNASSIGNED: Cancers are associated with risk factors including exposure to chemicals, ultraviolet radiation, harmful tobacco and alcohol use, exposure to human papillomavirus (HPV), and these factors may vary with age, cultural beliefs (myths and misconceptions), and socioeconomic factors among others.
Chaplains, however, have crucial roles to play in dispelling cancer myths in Nigeria. These roles include counseling, advocacy, education, and psycho-social support which may be limited by challenges such as spiritual ambiguity, inadequate training of healthcare providers and limited time/resources. These challenges can be addressed by training healthcare providers and incorporating chaplain practice in Nigerian healthcare.
UNASSIGNED: The role of
chaplains in dispelling cancer myths in Nigeria is crucial despite the numerous challenges. Hence, an urgent address of these challenges will be instrumental in ensuring effective chaplain practice in Nigeria.