Patients Trust During The Two Oncological Consultations (T12)

Patients’ trust during the two oncological consultations (T0 and T12)
The patient sample included 128 women and 129 men. Of the 128 female patients, 19 were gynecology patients and 109 were oncology patients. Of the 120 male patients, 38 were with prostate and testicular gem-cell cancers and 82 were oncology patients. The mean age of the patient sample was 56 years (S.D. 11,76). Cancer patients were diagnosed with a malignancy of the lung, breast, cervix, testis, liver, pancreas, or colon (Table 1). All patients were informed about their diagnosis and aware of their illness in accordance with their oncologists. Patients who were retired, housewives, or office workers constituted 60% of the sample (see Table 1). In our model, 446 patients (89%) answered the different questions, shown in Table 2,
Results are presented for this model in Fig.1 and 2. In this study, we found a significant positive relation between satisfaction and trust (Table 4). In addition, our results found that female patients were more satisfied, and trusted more in their oncologists when compared to male patients. In addition, patient characteristics such as level of education and type of cancer showed a positive significant effect on trust at T0. In particular, these values were obtained by using a logistic regression that estimated the effects of type of cancers, on the Odd to have confidence in the medical decisions. The results showed that the females had odds ratio (OR) 11.5 times more trust than males, so as the cancer patients whit high educational level had a OR 7.6 times more trust when compared to patients with low educational level (Table 5). During the second consultation (T12), 359 patients participated to this oncological consultation, while 87 patients had died (mortality rate 19,05%) and the other two did not participate. In this case, we also found a positive correlation between satisfaction, trust and comprehension as shown in Table 6. We observed