A Study on the Intention of People to Accept Free Screen for Cancer in Taiwanness

• Main Author: 黃懷葶
• Other Authors: 李銘章
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/60720045660087221176

碩士 === 佛光大學 === 管理學系 === 101 === According to statistics from the Department of Health, cancer is the top 10 disease that case death in Taiwan. Even the medical technology is progressive； the most people still think cancer equals death. At the beginning, people hardly feel pain from cancer and easily ignore it, due to that reason it always causes too late to find out and treat the cancer. However at the stage three or four of cancer, the only thing people can do is waiting for dying. So that is why people are still very scared about cancer. The medical resource is not common in the early living environment, but now days the national health insurance system is well. To avoid the waste of medical resource, government declares the cancer screening policy which includes the oral cavity cancer, colon and rectum cancer, breast cancer and cervical cancer. In generally speaking, this policy is a social welfare for the people but why some people still don’t want to take the cancer screening ? The purpose of this study is to discuss the factors that influence people accept the free cancer screening by the model of health belief. The study method is using sampling questionnaire survey to explore the differences of people’s will to take the free cancer screening. There are 361 copies of questionnaire and 300 valid questionnaires. The data is analyzed by SPSS computer program and the variables include social demography (gender, age, marriage, education, diet, life style), the conscious of cancer, the seriousness of cancer, the benefit of screening cancer, the barriers to screening cancer, the self-efficacy of preventing cancer, and the social supporting to analysis the differences in people’s will to accept the free cancer screening. From this study result, it shows that these factors have significant influence on the will to take the free cancer screening.This consequence can be the reference for the government administration . Keywords：Cacer screen、Health Belief Model