Abstract:
BACKGROUND:In cancer care, many clinical contexts still lack a good-quality patient-health professional communication about diagnosis and prognosis. Information transmission enables patients to make informed choices about their own healthcare. Nevertheless, disclosure is still an ethically challenging clinical problem in cancer care. High-quality care can be achieved by understanding the perspectives of others. The perspective of patients, their caregivers, physicians and nurses have seldom been simultaneously studied. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the phenomenon of diagnosis and prognosis-related communication as experienced by patients, their caregivers, and both their attending nurses and physicians, to enlighten meanings attached to communication by the four parties. METHODS:A qualitative study using interpretative phenomenological analysis was performed. PARTICIPANTS AND RESEARCH CONTEXT:Purposive sampling of six patients, six caregivers, seven nurses and five physicians was performed in two oncological hospitals in Italy. ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS:Local Ethics Committee approved the study. It was guided by the ethical principles of voluntary enrolment, anonymity, privacy and confidentiality. RESULTS:Three main themes were identified: (a) the infinite range of possibilities in knowing and willing to know, (b) communication with the patient as a conflicting situation and (c) the bind of implicit and explicit meaning of communication. CONCLUSION:The interplay of meanings attached by patients, their caregivers, and their attending oncologist and nurse to communication about diagnosis and prognosis revealed complexities and ambiguities not yet settled. Physicians still need to solve the ethical tensions in their caring relationship with patients to really allow them 'to choose with dignity and being aware of it'. Nurses need to develop awareness about their role in diagnosis and prognosis-related communication. This cognizance is essential not just to assure consistency of communication within the multi-disciplinary team but mostly because it allows and enables the moral agent to take its own responsibilities and be accountable for them.
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Nurs Ethicsjournal_title
Nursing ethicsauthors
Melis P,Galletta M,Gonzalez CIA,Contu P,Herrera MFJdoi
10.1177/0969733020916771subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2020-09-01 00:00:00pages
1418-1435issue
6eissn
0969-7330issn
1477-0989journal_volume
27pub_type
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