Patients and Nurses Views of Level of Patient's Rights Respect in Tabriz Training –Treatment Centers in 2004.

Abstract

Abstract: Introduction: Among significant factors which, cause the satisfaction of hospitalized patients are the care and respect which should be regarded within confines of the patient's rights by the therapeutically staff. Respecting to patient's rights by health care providers is necessary. Researches showed that informing the patients, participating them in decision –making and respecting patient's rights, promotes patient's health state and decrease long hospitalization period, patient and family costs and also in this field hospitalization costs. Therefore doing some researches are necessary. Methods and Materials: This survey is a descriptive –comparative study that in order to determining on hospitalized patients and nurses point of view about rate of patients' rights respect in Tabriz educational treatment center. The sampling method of the nurses (n=152). Is goal directed and number of patients (n=200), is simple random. The tools of data gathering was questionnaire that divided in to three sections (demographic characteristics, 18 questions of related to respect patient physical rights and 36 questions to respect patient psychosocial rights) that was answered by liker scale and include: always, often, occasionally, rarely, never and no occasion. For determining tool validity, content validity was used and also for determining scientific reliability test –retest method was used. Also for data analyses, t -test and one way ANOVA were used. Results: The findings of research showed that the most of nurses 59.9% consider the patient's right at very good level and 5.3% at moderate level. Also the most of patients 63% consider the patient's right at good level and 2.5% at low. Also the result of research indicate that correlation between demographic data and respect patient's rights in point of view of nurses, indicate that there was significant statistic correlation between different hospital and with respect of patient's rights and the other case was no significant statistic correlation. On the other hand correlation between demographic data and respecting patient's rights in patient's point of view, reveals that just there was significant statistic correlation between hospital and knowledge of the patient's rights with their point of view. Discussion: The results showed a there were significant differences between nurses and patients point of view of the respecting of patient's rights (p<0.05). Ultimately, the research findings can have some uses for basic planning patient's rights respect especially for management, services, education and nursing research.