Kozłowska Elżbieta, Szewczyk Maria T
Department of Surgery Nursing, L. Rydygier Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland ; Department and Clinic of General Surgery, L. Rydygier Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland.
Contemp Oncol (Pozn). 2012;16(6):557-62. doi: 10.5114/wo.2012.32490. Epub 2013 Jan 4.
The aim of this work was to evaluate the knowledge of symptoms and prophylaxis among hospitalized patients.
The research was carried in the Provincial Hospital in Bydgoszcz (i.e. general surgery, gynecology and obstetrics, urology, breast surgery and thoracic surgery). 250 hospitalized patients took part in the tests, as well as 50 healthy people. The scientific method used was a specially designed questionnaire. The Bioethics Committee of Collegium Medicum of Mikołaj Kopernik University in Bydgoszcz approved these tests.
Patients from the Breast Diseases Ward had better knowledge about cancers than the control group. Symptoms of lung cancer were known to both groups to the same extent. Patients from the Clinical Ward of Thoracic Surgery were very knowledgeable about lung cancer, but they did not know anything about other malignant types of cancer. Patients from Gynecology and Obstetrics wards are better than the control group only at knowledge about symptoms and screening of cervix cancer. Patients from the Urology Ward have the best knowledge about screening of prostate cancer and colon cancer. Those hospitalized at the Surgery Ward do not know symptoms of colon cancer, but they have knowledge about its screening.
Patients from the Clinical Ward of Thoracic and Cancer Surgery and the Clinical Surgery Ward had the least knowledge about malignant tumors.Patients from Urology, Gynecology and Obstetrics wards have better knowledge about malignant tumors treated there.
本研究旨在评估住院患者对症状及预防措施的了解情况。
研究在比得哥什省立医院（即普通外科、妇产科、泌尿外科、乳腺外科和胸外科）开展。250名住院患者以及50名健康人参与了测试。所采用的科学方法是一份专门设计的问卷。比得哥什哥白尼大学医学院生物伦理委员会批准了这些测试。
乳腺疾病病房的患者对癌症的了解程度高于对照组。两组对肺癌症状的了解程度相同。胸外科临床病房的患者对肺癌非常了解，但对其他恶性肿瘤类型一无所知。妇产科病房的患者仅在宫颈癌症状及筛查方面比对照组了解得更好。泌尿外科病房的患者对前列腺癌和结肠癌筛查的了解程度最佳。外科病房的住院患者不了解结肠癌症状，但了解其筛查方法。
胸外科与癌症外科临床病房以及普通外科病房的患者对恶性肿瘤的了解最少。泌尿外科、妇产科病房的患者对在这些科室治疗的恶性肿瘤了解得更好。
