Attitudes towards cancer of parents admitted to the emergency department with a sick child: A Cross-sectional study

Yıl 2024, Cilt: 15 Sayı: 4, 554 - 561, 31.12.2024

Ayşegül Şimşek , Ferhat Günerigök , Muhammet Ali Varkal

https://doi.org/10.18663/tjcl.1543065

Öz

Aim: Parents' perspectives change when it comes to illnesses such as cancer. Parents find it stressful, especially given what
society thinks and believes. The aim of this study is to determine how parents with a sick child feel about cancer.
Material and Methods: The descriptive and cross-sectional study was completed with parents who presented to the pediatric emergency department of a hospital. The Measuring Attitudes Towards Cancer Questionnaire—Society Version and the Sociodemographic Information Form for parents and their children were used to gather the information. Scores of 2.5 and above indicate negative attitudes towards cancer. The statistical program was used to analyze the gathered information.
Results: The study was completed with 83 parents. There was no family history of cancer in 84.3% of them. The overall score for "the scale was found to be 3.2 points. In addition, 3.1 points were obtained from the impossibility of healing, 3.4 from the discrimination sub-dimension, and 3.1 from the cancer diagnosis and spread sub-dimension. A statistically significant difference was found between the total and all sub-dimensions of the scale and the number of previous hospitalizations, maternal age, paternal age, and maternal employment status (p<0.05). There was a significant difference between economic status and the sub-dimension of revealing or disseminating the cancer diagnosis (p=0.04). A significant difference was found between the way of perceiving religion and the impossibility of recovery sub-dimension (p=0.02) and the scale total score (p=0.03).
Conclusion: The findings indicate that parents have negative perceptions of cancer. Individual characteristics are proven to affect attitudes.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Cancer, parents, social behavior, stigmatization.

Hasta bir çocukla acil servise başvuran ebeveynlerin kansere karşı tutumları: Kesitsel bir çalışma

Öz

Amaç: Kanser gibi hastalıklara karşı ebeveynlerin bakış açısı değişmektedir. Özellikle toplumun düşünceleri ve inanışları göz önüne alındığında ebeveynler bunu stresli buluyor. Bu çalışmanın amacı hasta çocuğu olan ebeveynlerin kansere ilişkin neler hissettiklerini belirlemektir.
Gereç ve Yöntemler: Tanımlayıcı ve kesitsel nitelikteki çalışma bir hastanenin çocuk acil servisine başvuran ebeveynlerle tamamlandı. Bilgi toplamak için Kansere Yönelik Tutumları Ölçme Anketi - Toplum Versiyonu ve ebeveynler ve çocuklarına yönelik Sosyodemografik Bilgi Formu kullanıldı. 2,5 ve üzeri puanlar kansere yönelik olumsuz tutuma işaret etmektedir. Toplanan bilgileri analiz etmek için istatistik programı kullanıldı.
Bulgular: Araştırma 83 ebeveyn ile tamamlandı. Bunların %84,3'ünün ailesinde kanser öyküsü yoktu. Ölçeğin genel puanı 3,2 puan olarak belirlendi. Ayrıca iyileşmenin imkansızlığı alt boyutundan 3,1, ayırt etme alt boyutundan 3,4, kanser tanısı ve yayılması alt boyutundan ise 3,1 puan elde edildi. Ölçeğin toplam ve tüm alt boyutları ile daha önce hastaneye yatış sayısı, anne yaşı, baba yaşı ve annenin çalışma durumu arasında fark bulundu (p<0,05). ekonomik durum ile kanser tanısını açıklama veya yayma alt boyutu arasında anlamlı farklılık (p=0,04) ile dini algılama şekli ve iyileşmenin imkansızlığı alt boyutu (p=0,02) ile ölçek arasında anlamlı farklılık bulunmuştur. toplam puan (p=0,03).
Sonuç: Bulgular ebeveynlerin kansere ilişkin olumsuz algılara sahip olduğunu göstermektedir. Bireysel özelliklerin tutumları etkilediği kanıtlanmıştır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Kanser, ebeveyn, sosyal davranış, damgalanma.

Etik Beyan

İstinye Üniversitesi Sosyal ve Beşeri Bilimler Araştırmaları Etik Kurulu Tarih: 13.06.2019 Say:2019/7

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