Simpósio Brasileiro de Comunicação em Enfermagem
SIBRACEN

Resumo

Mendes Isabel Amélia Costa, Andersson Margareta, Hayashida Miyeko, Trevizan Maria Auxiliadora. Disclosing serious diagnosis and prognosis from the perspective of swedish and brazilian nurses. In: Anais do 8. Simpósio Brasileiro de Comunicação em Enfermagem [Anais online]; 2002  Maio 02-03; São Paulo, SP, Brasil. 2002 [citado 2024 Abr 26]. Disponvel em: URL: http://www.proceedings.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=MSC0000000052002000200052&lng=pt&nrm=van .

This is an exploratory study concerning some ethical questions related to the disclosure of a serious diagnosis/prognosis to family and patient, with respect to its occurrence and frequency in the Brazilian and Swedish realities, from the viewpoint of graduate nursing students in both countries. The sample of Brazilian students comprised 62 nurses, whereas the Swedish group consisted of 55 professionals. Most of the Brazilians stated that disclosing the diagnosis (85.5%) and prognosis (75.8%) to the patient is a frequent or very frequent problem, which is minimized when the information is disclosed to the family. However, Swedish nurses never or rarely (58.2 to 63.7%) see this situation as a problem, neither when informing the diagnosis or prognosis to the family nor when informing the patient. In Sweden, most of the patients are informed about the diagnosis (98.2%) and prognosis (90.9%), but the family is not informed with regard to the diagnosis (94.6%) or prognosis (85.5%) before the patient's consent. In Brazil, the opposite occurs. The family is more frequently informed about the diagnosis (50%) and prognosis (56.5%) than the patient himself.

Palavras-chave : ethics; nursing; diagnosis; disclosure; humanization.