Understanding of his/her explained disease in children with hematological or oncological disease.

Accession number;02A0654446
Title;Understanding of his/her explained disease in children with hematological or oncological disease.
Author; FUJII YUJI (Hamamatsu Univ. Sch. of Med.) WATANABE CHIEKO (Hamamatsu Univ. Sch. of Med.) OKADA SHUICHI (Hamamatsu Univ. Sch. of Med.) HONGO TERUAKI (Hamamatsu Univ. Sch. of Med.) OZEKI TAKEHIKO (Hamamatsu Univ. Sch. of Med.)
Journal Title;Japanese Journal of Pediatric Oncology
Journal Code:X0797A
ISSN:0389-4525
VOL.39;NO.1;PAGE.24-30(2002)
Figure&Table&Reference;FIG.1, TBL.2, REF.16
Pub. Country;Japan
Language;Japanese
Abstract;To each of the 11 child patients of hematological or oncological diseases, 3- to 12-year-old, his/her disease was explained respectively, and they were interviewed to check the understnding of the name and state of his/her own disease. All the 11 patients who were explained the disease state could understand and reply the state almost correctly as explained by the attending physician. Among the 7 patients who were explained the disease name on the crisis at more than 5-year-old, 5 of them remembered the disease name correctly, and all 7 of them understood the disease state.