Based on a survey of 100 Malaysians:
- 47% knew about genetic diseases but obtained information primarily from flyers rather than online.
- 13% reported having a genetic disorder and 13% had family members with one.
- While most understood genetics was the cause, few had been tested or attended talks about genetic disorders.
- Many were unwilling to isolate affected family members but overall saw genetic diseases as posing low risk.
- The study provides a preliminary understanding but more comprehensive research is needed to generalize to all Malaysians.
19. SEX
54
53
52
MALE 47
51
50
FEMALE 53
49
KEY
48
47
46
45
44
MALE FEMALE
20. What is your age?
60
50
40
30
LESS THAN 15 10
KEY
YEARS OLD
20
16-22 YEARS 57
23-32 YEARS 22
10
33-42 YEARS 8
0
ABOVE 42 3
LESS THAN 16-22 23-32 33-42 ABOVE 42
15 YEARS
22. Do you know what genetic disorder is?
53
52 YES 47
51
NO 53
50
49
KEY
48
47
46
45
44
YES NO
23. If yes, where you know about that?
20
BOOKS 6
18
16
14 FRIENDS 4
12
TEACHERS 9
10
8 Series 1
NEWS 4
6
4 INTERNETS 4
2
FLYERS/ 20
0
PAMPLETS
24. Are you suffering any genetics disease?
YES 17
NO 83
KEY
NO
YES
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
25. What will you do if any of your family
member(s) are having genetic disorder?
ISOLATED THEM 17
CONCERN ABOUT 83
THEIR CONDITIONS
key
ISOLATED ABOUT THEM
CONCERN ABOUT THEIRS CONDITIONS
0 20 40 60 80 100
26. Is/are there any family members that are
suffering any genetic disorder?
YES 13
NO 87
KEY
NO
YES
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
27. Do you know any of the genetic disorder
states in this side?
YES 23
A LITTLE BIT 39
NO 38
YES
A LITTLE BIT
NO
28. How does genetic disorder infect someone?
THROUGH 1
MEDICINE
THROUGH 1
FOOD
GET INFECTED 19
BY SOMEONE
GENETICALLY 75
DONT HAVE 4
ANY IDEA
THROUGH MEDICINE
THROUGH FOOD
GET INFECTED BY SOMEONE
GENETICALLY
DON'T HAVE ANY IDEA
29. Have you ever do a medical test on genetic
disorder?
YES 19
NO, BUT I 31
WOULD LIKE TO
NO 39
NEVER THINK IN 11
MIND
YES
NO, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO
NO
NEVER THINK IN MIND
30. Do you ever attending any genetic disorder
talk?
YES 29
NO, BUT I 41
WOULD LIKE TO
NO 19
NEVER THINK IN 11
MIND
YES
NO, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO
NO
NEVER THINK IN MIND
31. Have you ever consult any doctor about
genetic disorder? YES 9
NO, BUT I 31
WOULD LIKE
TO
NO 48
NEVER THINK 12
IN MIND
YES
NO, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO
NO
NEVER THINK IN MIND
33. there are 47 people out of 100 who knows about
genetic disease
this is due to respondents education background
some of the respondents comes from a lower
education level, that is SRP (PMR) and SPM
even there are respondents that comes from
higher education level such as master and Ph.
D, but they might not in biology field
34. among the 100 respondents that took part in the
survey, there are 17 people that suffering genetic
disorder
among these 100 respondents, there are 13
people who have family members that suffering
genetic disorder
35. with that set of data we can conclude that there
are 13% of Malaysian that are suffering genetic
disorder
13 out of 100 Malaysian have the possibility to
suffer genetic disorder
Malaysian have small probability to suffer genetic
disease
36. 17 people that will isolate their family members if
they found out that their family members possess
genetic disorder
this data shows that people will take precaution
method to avoid from person that having this
problem
also we can assume that these people are dislike
to those who are suffering genetic disorder that
make them try isolate even if they are their family
members
37. in general, Malaysian have the basic knowledge
and information about what is genetic disease.
this is because most of them get the information
through flyers that are given to them
however according to the data collected, there
are only a few respondents that get information
through internet
38. this shows that people are dont bother to look
for information and get to know about this matter
this indicates that Malaysian are less concern
about this matter
however, there are 75 respondents who answer
that the cause of genetic disorder is through
genetic
this show that they are aware the cause of this
matter
39. data collected shows that there are 39
respondents who will not do medical check up
while only 9 person that have been consulting
doctors service
also there are 11 respondents that said they
never think about to do a medical check up
besides that, there are only a few respondents
that have ever been attending a talk regarding
genetic disorder
40. here we can make conclusion that Malaysian are
not pay much attention to their own health
41. so far we can conclude that, Malaysian are not
well informed about the general information of
genetic disease, but they already know roughly
about those disease
Malaysian also are less concern about the threat
of genetic disease where they didnt care enough
about this matter
42. this might because the low probability of
Malaysian to get infected by genetic disease by
only 13 person out of 100 citizens have the chance
of infected with it
because of that people are less concern about
this matter
43. however in this study, the data collected cannot
be 100% trusted
we cannot ignore that there might be some
respondents that didnt answer on what he
know, instead he playing around by choose other
option when answering the survey
besides that, the value 13% in this study cannot
represent the citizen of Malaysia because there
are only 100 person that took part the survey
because the respondents might didnt represent
the whole state in Malaysia
45. the research period should be prolong in order to
get more respondents to answer the survey
this research also shouldnt only consider the
answer from the web, but the questionaire also
should be distributed manually in order to get
more data