Association between knowledge about chemotherapy for patients with cancer and demographic characteristic in Al-Nassiriah city

Abstract

Author(s): Muna Awayed Sanam* and Khalida M. Khudur

To find out the relationship between cancer patients’ knowledge and demographic characteristics of age, gender, and educational level in the Cancer Specialist Centre in Al-Haboubi Teaching Hospital and Al-Nasiriyah Teaching Hospital (Cancer blood diseases). A quasi-experimental design is conducted through the application of a pre-test and post-test approach for the study and control groups from a non–probability (purposive) sample of (110) patients treated at the Blood Disease and Oncology Centre Each group contains (50) patients as control, study groups, and 10 patients are pilot study. An instrument is constructed that is comprised of two parts; the first part consists of demographic data for a study sample which is consisted of (5) items of age, gender, occupation education, and marital status The second part is multiple choice questions related to patients' knowledge which is consisted of three domain Validity and reliability of the instrument are determined through a pilot study. The findings of the study show that there are no statistically significant differences between knowledge about chemotherapy for patients with Cancer with their age and gender (p-value>0.05). While statistically significant differences between knowledge about chemotherapy for patients with Cancer with their educational level. Based on the findings of this research, the researcher has reached the following In the pre-test and posttest, there is a significant relationship between cancer patients’ knowledge and demographic characteristics of age and gender, but no significant relationship was found between patients’ knowledge of education level.

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