CORRELATION BETWEEN PERSONALITY OF ORAL CANCER PATIENTS AND FEELING OF SATISFACTION WITH BEING TOLD THE TRUTH ABOUT CANCER

• TATEBAYASHI Shigeru

  Department of Oral Maxillofacial Surgery, Nara Medical University

• AOKI Kumiko

  Department of Oral Maxillofacial Surgery, Nara Medical University

• INAGAKE Kotaro

  Department of Oral Maxillofacial Surgery, Nara Medical University

• YAMAMOTO Kunichika

  Department of Oral Maxillofacial Surgery, Nara Medical University

• IMAI Yuichiro

  Department of Oral Maxillofacial Surgery, Nara Medical University

• OHGI Kazuhiko

  Department of Oral Maxillofacial Surgery, Nara Medical University

• KIRITA Tadaaki

  Department of Oral Maxillofacial Surgery, Nara Medical University

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 口腔癌患者における性格特性と癌告知に対する満足度との関連

Abstract

This study was carried out in order to clarify the correlation between the personality of oral cancer patients and feeling of satisfaction with being told the truth about cancer. After 3 to 20 months from their discharge, we obtained information by means of questionnaires about telling the truth to 30 oral cancer surgery patients (13 males and 17 females aged 61.2 on average), and investigated their personality using the Yatabe-Guilford personality inventory (YG). According to YG, the patients were classified into 5 categories as type A [5 patients (16.7%)], type B [1 (3.3%)], type C [11 (36.7%)], type D [12 (40.0%)] and type E [1 (3.3%)]. The majority of type C (introverted) wanted information about their cancer, but in comparison with other character types, type C patients were the most dissatisfied with contents of being told the truth. This was probably because the contents of the truth telling were different from the postoperative disability that actually happened. Especially for patients with introverted personality, we consider it essential that the surgeon gives more information on the postoperative state.

Journal

• Japanese jornal of Head and Neck Cancer

  Japanese jornal of Head and Neck Cancer 29 (4), 587-593, 2003

  Japan Society for Head and Neck Cancer

Keywords

• oral cancer
• the truth telling
• personality
• feeling of satisfaction
• Yatabe Guilford personality inventory

Details

• CRID: 1390001204728149632
• NII Article ID: 10012172807
• NII Book ID: AN00165234
• DOI: 10.5981/jjhnc1974.29.587
• ISSN: 18839878
• ISSN: 09114335
• Web Site: https://search.jamas.or.jp/link/ui/2004118935
• Text Lang: ja
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