Pathology awareness in patients and patient's relatives applying to a pathology laboratory

To investigate pathology awareness in patients applying to a pathology laboratory. Method: This cross-sectional study included 150 patients and patients' relatives. A questionnaire, prepared by the researchers according to the literature, was administered at the Pathology Laboratory, Necmettin...

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Published in:Saudi medical journal 2019-11, Vol.40 (11), p.1150-1157
Main Authors: Findik, Siddika, Cihan, Fatma G
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Awareness
Biomedical laboratories
Cross-Sectional Studies
Female
Humans
Knowledge
Laboratories
Male
Medical laboratories
Medical research
Medical schools
Middle Aged
Original
Pathology
Patients
Patients rights
Physicians
Surveys
Surveys and Questionnaires
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Summary:To investigate pathology awareness in patients applying to a pathology laboratory. Method: This cross-sectional study included 150 patients and patients' relatives. A questionnaire, prepared by the researchers according to the literature, was administered at the Pathology Laboratory, Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, Turkey on May 2018. Of the participants, 79 (52.7%) were female and 71 (47.3%) were male. The mean age was 39.56±14.16 years old. Ninety-eight (65.3%) of them thought that patients do not have right to choose their pathologist. Of the participants, 24 (16%) did not know that the medical school had to be completed in order to become a pathologist and 73 (48.7%) of them did not know that 4 years postgraduate training was required. Fifty-nine (39.3%) of the participants did not know the pathologists were a medical doctor. While 89 participants (59.4%) had no idea what "frozen section" means, 66 people (44%) did not know that the pathologist uses microscope and 64 (42.7%) of them thought that all diseases could be diagnosed 100% by pathological examination. Forty-six (30.7%) of the participants thought that all specimens are not needed to be examined.  Conclusion: The knowledge and awareness of the participants about the pathology discipline came out to be inadequate.
ISSN:0379-5284
1658-3175
DOI:10.15537/SMJ.2019.11.24631