Disclosure of Diagnosis and Prognosis Information of Cancer in Jordan: Comparative Analysis
Abstract
There is no common disclosure practice among healthcare providers when it comes to cancer diagnosis, whether to tell or not to tell. The lack of a clear policy for healthcare practitioners, who face this dilemma every day in their professional practice, further complicates the situation. The aim of this review is to attempts to look into what governs the public attitude towards disclosure in Jordan as an example of what may affect attitudes in developing countries. Also brings some data from national research among physicians and patients as well as from public surveys to describe the changing attitude over the years with a comparative analysis of the Western literature, A search was done via MedLine for all publications related to this review objective were included emanating from Jordan and western countries (USA, Australia and UK). The findings showed that Western countries have high levels of reported disclosure compared to Jordan, which has a slight growth in disclosure due to some obstacles in the sociocultural constructs lacks patient education resources and low health literacy.
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