The awareness of mammography as a diagnostic method was very high (80.7%), but an extremely low knowledge of mammography as a screening method was found.
In particular, studies have reported low knowledge of genetics associated with strong interest and/or intention to test but yet ultimately low completion of testing, particularly in underserved and less educated groups.
"It struck me that we were in the same sort of deal," he says, "where we have very low knowledge of the economic options among consumers, drastic undercapitalization, and a completely disorganized market".
We conclude that Pakistani medical students have a low acceptance and a low knowledge of evolutionary theory.
We can trace their lack of knowledge to their schooling, as prior work detected similarly low knowledge of evolution in the islands' schoolteachers.
Nevertheless, a recent study shows that medical students in Pakistan have low knowledge of evolutionary theory as well as low acceptance of the theory (Yousuf et al. 2011).
The non-adopters had relatively low knowledge of the technology as such, and one example of this was the common mix-up between photovoltaics and solar heat panels, i.e., panels for producing electricity and producing heat respectively.
Low knowledge of TB and contact history were predictors of active TB among suspects.
The young woman quoted above offered the following comment immediately after discussing her own perceived low knowledge of chlamydia: "...but I don't think many, like most people I know, I don't think they know all about this stuff so, I mean they're about my age...I dunno...I just think it's, there's just hardly any information about this and I think there should be".
Although knowledge that mosquitoes transmit malaria was low, knowledge of mosquito control methods was high.
