Table 5 Nurses’ perception of difficulties in truth disclosure (n = 279)
From: The physician-nurse collaboration in truth disclosure: from nurses’ perspective
Item | n | % |
|---|---|---|
Fear of patients’ negative emotions or their suicide attempts after truth disclosure | 211 | 75.6 |
Families’ wish to conceal the truth | 200 | 71.7 |
Fear of getting into medical dispute due to truth disclosure | 130 | 46.6 |
Lack of enough time for truth disclosure | 121 | 43.4 |
Fear of burdening self with telling “bad’ news. | 101 | 36.2 |
Lack of appropriate room for truth disclosure | 86 | 30.8 |
Lack of capacity to tell the truth | 77 | 27.6 |
Other | 14 | 5.0 |