TY  - JOUR
TI  - Evaluation of Perspectives of Healthcare Professionals and
Others Towards Cancer: Survey Study
AB  - 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 <0.01) was found between the two groups in terms
of the answers given to the following five questions. No statistically significant difference was found
between the two groups in terms of answers given to other questions.
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: There was a significant difference between the two groups in
terms of the answers given to certain questions included in the questionnaire. We think that the fact that
healthcare professionals have more contact with cancer patients and especially that they can follow the
diagnosis and treatment process of such patients more closely, compared to the group, which does not
include any healthcare professionals, was effective in obtaining this result.
AU  - Kırık, Ali
AU  - AVCI, NİLUFER
AU  - Caner, Burcu
AU  - Kaya, Mehmet Nur
DO  - 10.5505/KTD.2021.96714
PY  - 2021
JO  - Kocaeli Tıp Dergisi
VL  - 10
IS  - 2
SN  - 2147-0758
SP  - 63
EP  - 68
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/517100
ER  -