مشكلات مرضى السرطان المراجعين لمستشفى الجامعة الأردنية : دراسة على عينة من المرضى

Abstract EN

This study aimed to identify social, psychological and economic problems facing cancer patients at Jordan University Hospital.

Furthermore, it seeks ways for identifying ways to minimize such problem perceived by patients, in addition to knowing differences in problems accordingly to (gender, age and monthly income).

A questionnaire was distributed after being developed on a deliberate sample of (75) patients from the study population (2093) patients according to the hospital administration data for the year 2015.

The study used the sample social survey methodology.

The results indicate the following: the degree of patients’ problems on the three areas were moderate in general, social problems came first followed by economic then psychological problems.

The most important social problems for patients were the lack of a social worker at the hospital, then the inability to deal with others because of the disease, in addition to the disease’s negative effect on the relationship with children in the family.

The most important psychological problems were the patient feeling that his family in treating him with pity due to his condition, the sense of despair and frustration from life followed by feeling depressed.

The most prominent economic problems were selling property during illness, loosing employment and then suffering from poverty.

Results also showed no statistically significant differences at the level of significance (α ≤ 0.05) on the three areas of problems attributed to the variables of "gender, age and monthly income".

The study recommends the need for full exemption for all patients with cancer of the cost of medical treatment, and for them to be included under the umbrella of comprehensive insurance, the appointment of medical social workers in hospitals, to work on providing suitable jobs for cancer patients and to adjust and mitigate administrative procedures as much as possible for patients