Factors Affecting the Tendency of People to Become Aware of the Disease when Cancer

The article is result of a survey in Babol aimed to clarifying an ethical problem of physician working in the field of refractory disease, especially cancer. The researchers inquired that people how much are ready to be informed directly about their disease and survival, and which attributes containing age, gender, marital status, education status, and number of children are correlate to it so that physician can describe about illness to them. This survey has done on 381 people in five geographical areas in Babol. Research tool was a researcher made questionnaire, which was based on psychological projection. Questionnaire validity calculated by splitting 0.78 and by Cronbach’s alpha 0.79 after a pilot study and removing some items. Also in order to improving the reliability some items has corrected at the same time. Finally, findings showed there is a significant deference between people who prefer to know truth and somebody do not prefer. The agreement to awareness showed correlation with some factors such as age and number of children, but there is no correlation with educational status and gender.