Awareness from patient right patent and its observance from patient's viewpoint
Patient’s awareness about their rights in addition to increase the service quality and health care and reduce medical expenses (cost), can cause the medical staff also take responsibility of protection of patients’ rights. Therefore, this investigation was conducted in order to determine awareness from patient right patent and its consideration (observance) from hospitalized patients’ viewpoint.
This cross-sectional study was conducted through available sampling on 384 hospitalized patients referred to Zahedan Medical University hospitals in 1390. Information collecting tolls were including: demographic information check list and two questionnaires regard patients awareness and observance about patient right patent. Data were analyzed by Pearson’s test of correlation, two-sample t-test and one-way ANOVA, and Through SPSS software version 16.0.
Results showed that average score of patients awareness about their rights patent was 6.48 (SD=1.3) (in weak level) and average of observance of right patent from patients viewpoint was 6.28 (SD=1.02) (in adverse level). Also analysis of the seventh realms related to awareness and patient’s right patent observance showed that minimum and maximum average score were related to objection and complaint right (0.15±0.85 and 0.25±0.05) and awareness right and get information (2.1±0.55 and 2.8±0.68), respectively. There was a significant relationship between awareness of patients about their rights and patient’s right patent observance (P<0.05).
According to the obtained results, it is necessary that hospitals managers must adopt some measures to make qualifications in order to awareness of patients about their rights and execution of the laws related to observance of patient’s rights.
- حق عضویت دریافتی صرف حمایت از نشریات عضو و نگهداری، تکمیل و توسعه مگیران میشود.
- پرداخت حق اشتراک و دانلود مقالات اجازه بازنشر آن در سایر رسانههای چاپی و دیجیتال را به کاربر نمیدهد.