Nurses Attitudes Toward Cancer and Affecting Factors

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine nurses’ attitudes towards cancer and affecting factors. METHODS The population of this descriptive research was composed of nurses working in Public Hospitals in Adıyaman city center. The study was conducted with 214 participants. RESULTS The mean scores of factor 1, factor 2, factor 3 and total QMATC scores are 1.72±0.67, 1.89±0.51, 1.53±0.47 and 1.71±0.42, respectively. It was found that nurses who encontered cancer patients in their close social circles such as neighbors and friends had higher impossibility of recovery-stereotyping scores than those who never encountered cancer cases. (p

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