Physician’s Attitudes in the Management of Terminally Ill Patients

Information and Awareness of Diagnosis and Progression of Cancer in Adult and Elderly Cancer Patients

“…The patient variables also seem to affect understanding of information and awareness of disease of informed and uninformed patients 2 ,16, 17, 18,22, whereas awareness of the type and stage of the disease refers to the patient's ability to relate to the image of his/her current health status. Morasso et al 17 and Blanchard et al2 believe that informed patients may have difficulty in understanding information and that the patient variables affect the process.…”

Illness Awareness of Patients in Hospice: Psychological Evaluation and Perception of Family Members and Medical Staff

“…25 The assimilation of information about their diagnosis, treatment options, and prognosis by patients does not depend only on the amount of information that they receive and the quality of the interactions with doctors, but also on some characteristics of the patients themselves. 26 The process that is used by patients to give significance to the information received is long and complex and is constituted by a progression of different levels, in which patients begin to comprehend their own situation and to accept it at an emotional level. 27 This process can be influenced by cultural background, needs, expectations, abilities of coping with the disease, mechanisms of self-defense, and by the locus of control of disease.…”

Illness Awareness in Cancer Patients: A Conceptual Framework And A Preliminary Classification Hypothesis

“…Even when medical staff offered information and gave explanations to patients, many had difficulty comprehending this information (Lerman et al, 1993). In fact, patients' assimilation of information about their diagnosis, treatment options and prognosis depends not only on the quantity of information they receive and on the quality of medical interactions but on the patients' pre-existing characteristics as well (Morasso et al, 1988).…”