Lavrentiadis G, Manos N, Christakis J, Semoglou C
Department of Psychiatry, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki Medical School, Greece.
Psychother Psychosom. 1988;49(3-4):171-8. doi: 10.1159/000288081.
One hundred and sixteen cancer patients were interviewed in order to investigate whether the Greek cancer patient wants to be informed and whether he knows his true diagnosis and prognosis of his illness. A semistructured interview was used and also a number of psychological parameters were assessed. Though only 15.5% of the patients named their real diagnosis, according to the interviewer's assessment 53% were strongly suspicious of their real diagnosis and 55% suspected their real prognosis. Furthermore, 49% when asked directly answered that they wanted to know if they had cancer and 49% disagreed with the policy of withholding the truth from the patient. The policy of telling or not telling the truth to the cancer patient in Greece is discussed in comparison with policies and attitudes in other countries.
为了调查希腊癌症患者是否希望被告知病情，以及他们是否知晓自己疾病的真实诊断和预后情况，我们对116名癌症患者进行了访谈。采用了半结构化访谈，并评估了一些心理参数。尽管只有15.5%的患者说出了他们的真实诊断，但根据访谈者的评估，53%的患者强烈怀疑自己的真实诊断，55%的患者怀疑自己的真实预后。此外，49%的患者在被直接询问时回答说他们想知道自己是否患有癌症，49%的患者不同意对患者隐瞒真相的政策。我们将希腊对癌症患者告知或不告知真相的政策与其他国家的政策和态度进行了比较讨论。
