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Rights' and Responsibilities among Hospitalized Patients' in Karbala city | ||
| Kerbala Journal of Medicine | ||
| Article 1, Volume 10, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 2756-2763 PDF (0 K) | ||
| Author | ||
| Maytham Salim AL-Nasrawii | ||
| Abstract | ||
| background: The development of a strategy to promote patients' rights and responsibilities has to be carefully prepared, in order to ensure that the intention is translated into practical action, which commands the support of all parties involved. Such action does not follow automatically, but takes time to become fully effective. National situations vary in respect of legal frameworks, health care systems, economic conditions, and social, cultural and ethical values. Patients’ rights, is recently introduced term in health sciences literature and practice and has become an important part of modern health care practice. Patients now are much more aware of what they expect from health care professionals, when they enter the health care environment. Objective: The main objective of this study was to determine the level of awareness of rights and responsibilities among hospitalized patients' in Karbala city. Patients and Methods: Across-sectional study was conducted in Karbala city center of Karbala governorate, the study consists of (200) patient recumbent in public hospitals and data were collected by direct interview with those patients by using a questionnaire form designed by the author based on WHO legislations' this questionnaire consisting of three parts form (some demographics characteristic, patients Rights' and patients Responsibilities).Statistical analysis was done by using Chi-Square (χ2) test. Results: Most patients did not know about the patients’ bill of rights, even though they are spontaneously practicing their rights and responsibilities. Conclusion: - Despite the enjoyment of the patients were lying in government hospitals full rights enshrined internationally, there was a lack of patients' awareness regarding the patients' rights and responsibilities. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Patient; Awareness of patients | ||
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