Kurdish families’ perspectives towards diagnosis disclosure of cancer disease: A cross-sectional study - 30/05/24
Summary |
Background |
In Eastern cultures, healthcare providers often engage the family in decision-making, frequently without the patient's explicit consent. Owing to a lack of information, we aimed to explore Kurdish families’ perceptions of cancer diagnosis disclosure.
Methods |
Five hundred families of patients who attended the sole adult tertiary health facility in the Kurdistan Region were personally invited to this cross-sectional study.
Results |
The mean age of the family members was 46.24 (19–87 years). Most of the participants reported that they prefer a patient be told he/she has cancer (63.60%). Their reasons were to help course of treatment (16.67%), to improve the relationship with the family (9.43%), to avoid living an illusion (5.66%), to better organize their life (20.13%), and a combination of these reasons (48.11%). The remaining 36.4% of participants did not agree to disclose the truth to their patients. The reasons of these participants were knowing the truth changes everyday life (3.30%), it helps in the course of treatment of patients (1.65%), because there is no treatment for cancer (5.50%), knowing the truth has negative psychological effects (21.98%), knowing the truth has negative social effects (1.65%), the patients will not be cooperative with treatment (3.85%), information disclosure may not be necessary be desired or helpful for some patients at a specific time (1.10%), and a combination of these reasons (60.99%). They reported that religion and family have roles in accepting the disease (67.2 and 94.2%, respectively).
Concussions |
A considerable percentage of Kurdistan family members had a negative attitude towards diagnosis disclosure.
Le texte complet de cet article est disponible en PDF.Keywords : Cancer, Disclosure, Perceptions
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