Table 5 Percentage of patients and physicians who fully agree with the statement (A) and concordance of patients’ and physicians’ estimation of patient understanding of information (B)
A | B | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Patient’s/physician’s questions | Patient fully agrees (%)* | Physician fully agrees (%)* | Number of pairs* | Number of concordant pairs | Only patient fully agrees | Only physician fully agrees | McNemar’s test P value | |
1. | I/the patient understood the oral information completely | 82.6 | 56.5 | 46 | 26 | 16 | 4 | 0.012 |
2. | I/the patient understood the written information completely | 80.0 | 51.1 | 45 | 26 | 16 | 3 | 0.004 |
3. | I/the patient understood all words and expressions that the physician used during the oral information | 78.3 | 52.2 | 46 | 24 | 17 | 5 | 0.017 |
4. | I/the patient understood all words and expressions in the written information | 64.4 | 42.2 | 45 | 21 | 17 | 7 | 0.064 |
5. | I/the patient understood how the treatment would be carried out and followed up | 91.3 | 65.2 | 46 | 28 | 15 | 3 | 0.008 |
6. | I/the patient understood what side effects the treatment may have | 88.9 | 60.0 | 45 | 26 | 16 | 3 | 0.004 |
7. | I/ the patient understood the purpose of the research study | 87.0 | 71.7 | 46 | 27 | 13 | 6 | 0.167 |