Mehmet NUR KAYA, Ali KIRIK, Nilüfer AVCI, Burcu CANER

Sağlık Çalışanı Olan ve Sağlık Çalışanı Olmayanların Kansere Yaklaşımının Değerlendirilmesi: Anket Çalışması

GİRİŞ ve AMAÇ: Kanser hastaları, hastalığa bağlı olarak çeşitli fiziksel ve psikolojik problemler yaşamaktadır. Sağlıklı bireylerde kansere karşı genel tutumların negatif hale gelmesiyle, kanserin iyileştirilebilirliğine yönelik tutumların da negatif olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Biz sağlıklı bireylerin kansere bakış açısındaki farklılıkların değerlendirilmesini, sağlık çalışanları ve sağlık çalışanı olmayan bireylerin bu açıdan karşılaştırılmasını amaçladık. YÖNTEM ve GEREÇLER: Anket, sağlık çalışanı olan ve sağlık çalışanı olmayan kişilerden oluşan iki ayrı grup arasında yüz yüze dolduruldu. Her iki grubun kansere yaklaşımları, ilk olarak katılımcıların demografik ve mesleki özelliklerinin sorgulandığı 11 sorudan oluşan bu anket aracılığıyla değerlendirildi. BULGULAR: Ankette beş soruya verilen cevaplar açısından iki grup arasında istatistiksel olarak anlamlı bir fark bulundu (p

Evaluation of Perspectives of Healthcare Professionals and Others Towards Cancer: Survey Study

INTRODUCTION: Cancer patients may experience various physical and psychological problems depending on the disease. It has been determined that as the general attitudes taken towards cancer have become negative in healthy individuals, attitudes taken towards the curability of cancer have also become negative. We aimed to evaluate the differences in the perspective of healthy individuals on cancer, and to compare healthcare professionals and non-healthcare professionals from this point of view. METHODS: The questionnaire was filled out face-to-face by two separate groups of people, one of which comprised healthcare professionals and the other comprised people that are not healthcare professionals. Both groups’approachesto cancer were evaluated by means ofthis questionnaire consisting of 11 questions, through which the demographic and professional characteristics of the participants were questioned first. RESULTS: A statistically significant difference (p

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