The acceptance, conformity, and perception of patients undergoing nuclear medicine procedures

JOINT EVENT: 4^th International Conference and Exhibition on Medical Physics and Biophysics & 2^nd International Conference on Nuclear Medicine & Radiation Therapy

July 27-28, 2017 Rome, Italy

Junjie Neri Caber

Perpetual Succour Hospital, Philippines

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Nucl Med Radiat Ther

Abstract :

This descriptive-correlational study aimed to determine the level of acceptance, conformity, and perception of the patients who underwent nuclear medicine procedures. The subjects of the study were the nuclear medicine patients comprising the entire group and classified as to: sex, age, civil status, educational attainment, work status and diagnosis. The data gathered were subjected to descriptive and inferential statistics set at 5% level of significance. With a p-value less than 0.05 confidence level gender has a significant relationship between level of acceptance to nuclear medicine in terms of experience, level of their conformity to nuclear medicine in terms of procedure, safety, and health maintenance. There exist a significant relationship between level of acceptance of the respondents in terms of experience and level of conformity of the respondents in terms of health maintenance. This study proved that gender affects the level of acceptance and conformity. Work status affected the level of conformity to health maintenance. As to the respondents� perception to nuclear medicine most of them said that nuclear medicine is good but there are some who said it is dangerous.

Biography :

Email: junjiecaber@yahoo.com