Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

  Received: 30 Sep 2010, Accepted: 26 Sep 2011

  Abstract

  Introduction: Social factors have highly related with occurrence of diseases. In order to decrease health problems in societies, medicine should be equipped with socio-biological perspective toward health and disease. This study aimed to determine the relationship between social participation with stomach, breast and lymphoma cancers.

  Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 85 patients with stomach, breast and lymphoma cancers, older than 14 years, were recruited using classified probability sampling. Another 85 individuals were selected as control group. Data were collected using questionnaires and analyzed using discriminate analysis, canonical correlation, and logistic regression.

  Results: The results indicated that there was an average association between the set of social participation components with stomach, breast and lymphoma cancers. The social participation component had also significant relationships with the diseases. The component of willingness for gaining interests for the group had significant relationships with the studied diseases (OR=1.602, P<0.05). Also, the component of willingness into participation had significant relationship with breast cancer (OR=1.597, P<0.01).

  Conclusion: Based on the results of this study, social participation was a social determinant of affection by stomach, breast and lymphoma cancers. It is necessary to pay attention to social participation.

  Key words: social participation, medical sociology, social determinants of health, cancer

  Please cite this article as follows:

  Tavakol M, Naseri Rad M. Relationship between Social Participation and Cancer among Patients in Cancer Institute of Tehran. Hakim Research Journal 2011 14(3): 137- 143.

  * Corresponding Author: Al-e-Ahmad Highway, Gisha Bridge, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. Tel: +98- 21- 61117846, Fax:+98- 21- 88012211, E-mail: mtavakol@ut.ac.ir