ArticleCancer management and research2018
Disclosure of cancer diagnosis in China: the incidence, patients' situation, and different preferences between patients and their family members and related influence factors.
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Abstract
purposeThe purpose of this study was to investigate the disclosure incidence of cancer diagnosis to patients before chemotherapy, to survey the attitudes of the patients and their families and related influencing factors toward disclosure of cancer diagnosis, and to compare the anxiety and depression levels between the disclosure and non-disclosure patients. PARTICIPANTS AND
methodsA prospective cohort study was conducted at a tertiary hospital in China. A consecutive series of patients who had been diagnosed with malignancy by pathology and their family member were included in our study from March 2017 to December 2017. Patients' situation, preferences, and their family members' preferences were investigated by a self-designed questionnaire following a semi-structured interview. The Chinese version of HADS for anxiety and depression was used to test the patients' psychological distress. Binary logistic regression was used to analyze the related influencing factors of patients' disclosure of their diagnosis.
resultsA total of 124 pairs of patients and their family members were analyzed. Of the 124 patients, 47 (37.90%) patients knew about their cancer diagnosis and 77 (62.10%) patients did not know about their cancer diagnosis before chemotherapy. There were more patients than family members who wanted the patients to be informed about the diagnosis of terminal illness (91.9% vs 53.2%,
conclusionMore than half of the patients did not know their exact diagnosis before chemotherapy in China. Educational level and economic status may be influencing factors for the disclosure of cancer diagnosis. Patients and their family members had different preferences toward diagnosis disclosure.
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