2Department of Nursing, Adıyaman University, Adıyaman-Turkey DOI : 10.5505/tjo.2020.2303 ORIGINAL ARTICLE OBJECTIVE
The aim of this study was to determine nurses" attitudes towards cancer and affecting factors.
METHODS
The population of this descriptive research was composed of nurses working in Public Hospitals in
Adıyaman city center. The study was conducted with 214 participants.
RESULTS
The mean scores of factor 1, factor 2, factor 3 and total QMATC scores are 1.72±0.67, 1.89±0.51,
1.53±0.47 and 1.71±0.42, respectively. It was found that nurses who encontered cancer patients in their
close social circles such as neighbors and friends had higher impossibility of recovery-stereotyping
scores than those who never encountered cancer cases. (p<0.05).
CONCLUSION
It was observed that the nurses working in the hospital had positive attitudes towards the factors of revealing
and spreading the diagnosis of cancer, impossibility of recovery-stereotyping and discrimination
against cancer patients.