Factors affecting the informative needs of cardiac, cancerous and abdomen surgical patients

ABSTRACT

Health care professionals proved that for total medical care to be effective patients must have better understanding of health information. Two hundred patients were interviewed to investigate the effect of some independent variables [age, sex, educational level, occupation, diagnosis and need for information] on the dependent variable the informative needs of the patient. The results of the study showed that, different variables affected significantly the different studied informative needs. Multiple regression indicated that the variables included in the study [age, sex, education,... etc.] explain a small proportion of the variability in the dependent scores. It also appears that diagnosis as a variable affects significantly the majority of the categories as [nutrition, surgical operation intervention and rest and activities]. It can be said that patients and staffs agree on the fact that patients should be involved in the planning of care and treatment