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Mothers' preferences toward breaking bad news about their children cancer
Zahra Mostafavian1, Zahra Abbasi Shaye2, Arezou Farajpour3,4
1Department of Community Medicine, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran.
Background:
The responsibility of breaking bad news (BBN) to patients is one of the most difficult tasks of a medical profession.
Aim:
The current study aimed to investigate the preferences of mothers of children with cancer about BBN.
Materials And Methods:
In this cross-sectional study was conducted in Mashhad during years of 2016, 62 mothers of children with cancer at Dr-Sheikh hospital were recruited by convenience sampling and completed a questionnaire including demographic data and 20 questions about the mothers' preferences to BBN. Data displayed as percent by SPSS V20 software.
Results:
Mothers preferred that BBN conducted by their child's doctor (93.5%), with an emotional and compassionate way (83.9%), and in a private setting (90.3%). Be told completely about the process of diagnosis (98.4%), meet people with similar conditions (83.9%), receive psychological (85.5%), and religious (79%) support after getting bad news, being in touch with a close relative (82.3%) and applying another term-like malignancy instead of cancer (95.5%).
Conclusion:
We tried providing helpful information for developing national guidelines about how to breaking news in Iran, by doing this study.
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