Patient's satisfaction of information about cancer and care treatment

							Unmet Informational Needs of Cancer Patients

Mohadeseh Nochamani, Mehri safaeifar, Dr Hadi Zamanian, Marzi Beheshtee, Maryam Dastan, Faezeh
Fatollah Beigi, Maryam Karbasi Motlagh, Ensie Enjedany,Mona Darya Afzoun, Bahare Babayi

1. Student Scientific Research Center of Tehran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran.
2.Psycho oncology research group of Tehran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran.

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study is to investigate informational needs of cancer patients
and also unmet needs in this era regarding the source of information.

Methods: 100 cancer patients with mean age 44.3 & F/M ratio 3:1 completed an information
support questionnaire.
Results: only 24 percent of patients were satisfied about received information and 77 percent think
that received information is not enough. Most of patients think that the information they received
help them in treatment progression and most of them needs personal training about their disease
management. The source of data was care providers only in 65 percent of patients and family was a
common source of information in patients.

CONCLUSION: According to these results care provider systems in Iran are not sufficient
enough to met patient's information needs. A few number of patients expressed that amount of
received information is enough and this cause patients to have more concerns and consequently
worse quality of life. Development is needed in the enabling role of care providers by giving more
information to patients and their families.

Mohadeseh Nochamani is a presenter (poster)
Keywords: Informational, Unmet, Cancer
Sources of financial funding for the research: Student Scientific Research Center of Tehran
University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran.