PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Findik, Siddika
AU  - Cihan, Fatma G.
TI  - Pathology awareness in patients and patient’s relatives applying to a pathology laboratory
AID  - 10.15537/smj.2019.11.24631
DP  - 2019 Nov 01
TA  - Saudi Medical Journal
PG  - 1150--1157
VI  - 40
IP  - 11
4099  - http://smj.org.sa/content/40/11/1150.short
4100  - http://smj.org.sa/content/40/11/1150.full
SO  - Saudi Med J2019 Nov 01; 40
AB  - Objectives: To investigate pathology awareness in patients applying to a pathology laboratory.Method: This cross-sectional study included 150 patients and patients’ relatives. A questionnaire, prepared by the researchers according to the literature, was administered at the Pathology Laboratory, Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, Turkey on May 2018.Results: Of the participants, 79 (52.7%) were female and 71 (47.3%) were male. The mean age was 39.56±14.16 years old. Ninety-eight (65.3%) of them thought that patients do not have right to choose their pathologist. Of the participants, 24 (16%) did not know that the medical school had to be completed in order to become a pathologist and 73 (48.7%) of them did not know that 4 years postgraduate training was required. Fifty-nine (39.3%) of the participants did not know the pathologists were a medical doctor. While 89 participants (59.4%) had no idea what “frozen section” means, 66 people (44%) did not know that the pathologist uses microscope and 64 (42.7%) of them thought that all diseases could be diagnosed 100% by pathological examination. Forty-six (30.7%) of the participants thought that all specimens are not needed to be examined.Conclusion: The knowledge and awareness of the participants about the pathology discipline came out to be inadequate.