Table 5.
Physician’s and Imam’s advice and its relationship to fasting in 102 cancer patients.
| Total number | Non-fasting n (%) |
Partial fasting n (%) |
Complete fasting n (%) |
P | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Number (%) | 102 | 41 (40) | 24 (24) | 37 (36) | |
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| Seeking physician’s advice regarding fasting | 47 | 22 (47) | 13 (28) | 12 (25) | .113 |
| Physician’s opinion when asked: | <.001 | ||||
| Discourage fasting | 30 | 19 (63) | 9 (30) | 2 (7) | |
| Encourage fasting | 2 | 0 | 1 (50) | 1 (50) | |
| Equivocal | 15 | 3 (20) | 3 (20) | 9 (60) | |
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| Seeking Imam’s advice regarding fasting: | 18 | 9 (50) | 3 (17) | 6 (33) | .603 |
| Imam’s opinion when asked | .105 | ||||
| Discourage fasting | 12 | 7 (58) | 3 (25) | 2 (17) | |
| Encourage fasting | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Equivocal | 5 | 1 (20) | 0 | 4 (80) | |
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| Asking both the doctor’s and the Imam’s advice regarding fasting | 12 | 7 (58) | 2 (17) | 3 (25) | |
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| Asking the Imam but not the doctor regarding fasting | 6 | 2 (33) | 1 (18) | 3 (50) | |
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| Asking the doctor but not the Imam for fasting | 35 | 15 (43) | 11 (31) | 9 (26) | |
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| Asking neither the doctor’s nor the Imam’s advice regarding fasting | 49 | 17 (35) | 10 (15) | 22 (45) | |