Professor José Carlos Amado Martins Professor Rogério Rodrigues presented on November 10th his doctoral thesis in Nursing Sciences at the Biomedical Sciences Institute Abel Salazar (ICBAS) of the University of Oporto. The thesis “The Right of the Patient to Information: Contexts, Practices, Satisfaction and Gains in Health” was unanimously approved.
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The professor of the Nursing School of Coimbra analysed the way in which the interchange of information is carried out between health professionals and the oncology patient; what is said, what is not said, why it is said and how it is said.
According to the conclusions of the study by Professor José Carlos Martins, developed at the Portuguese Oncology Institute in Coimbra, the somewhat paternalist idea that it is better not to say everything to the patient is wrong. |
| Professor José Carlos says that when patients are fully informed about their illness «we promote their autonomy, with a positive influence on anxiety, depression, the perception of the health condition, morbidity and the satisfaction with health care». |
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The following professors were members of the jury: António Barbosa (Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon), Ana Paula França (Nursing School of Porto), Manuel Alves Rodrigues (ESEnfC), Rui Nunes (Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon), Romero Bandeira (ICBAS) AND Maria Constança Paul, who presided the jury.
