Attitudes Towards Informed Consent: A Comparison Between Surgeons Working in Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom

Jamjoom, Bakur A.; Jamjoom, Aimun A B; Sharab, Momen; Jamjoom, Abdulhakim B.

doi:10.5001/omj.2011.08

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“…If a patient has enough information, she or he can make informed choices. According to Jamjoom et al, [10] Kingdom of Saudi Arabia surgeons tend to view informed consent not only as an ethical and legal obligation but also as a benefit to patients. However, the Saudi Arabia surgeons are more likely to adopt a paternalistic attitude in informing patients and felt that information about harmful risks may dissuade their patients from undergoing the operation.…”

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“…However, the Saudi Arabia surgeons are more likely to adopt a paternalistic attitude in informing patients and felt that information about harmful risks may dissuade their patients from undergoing the operation. [10] They admit that the amount of information they give is related to patient characteristics such as age, gender, level of education and social class. In this study, it was not mentioned how gender affected the physician's information-giving.…”

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Saudi female university employee self-determination in their own health-related issues

Hallila

Al-Halabi

2018

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Introduction: To date, there have been no studies located investigating Saudi women's self-determination in their own healthrelated issues. This study aims to investigate how women in Saudi Arabia see their ability and willingness to decision making in this matter. Methodology: The study design is ethnonursing and Leininger's Sunrise model was utilized as background theory; qualitative data analysis method was used. 12 Saudi women worked at a large University in Saudi Arabia were interviewed in-depth. Results and discussion: Seven universal Saudi Arabian cultural themes were identified: customs and traditions, women's decision-making denied, shared decision-making, informed women and empowerment rise, financial status matters, emerging changes in the society, and impact from the Western world. Conclusions: One of the major findings in the interviews was that all research participants observed themselves as more independent and empowered than in the accounts reflecting other women they knew. They saw other women, whom they met at the hospital or who were their friends or relatives, were without equal rights for independent decision making. Mainly, men are interested in reproductive health and are willing to dominate women's independent decision making in healthcare. The main conclusion, according to this study, the Saudi women research participants who are educated, are more independent in their health-related decision making than the previous literature suggested. The result may be different in villages and among less educated women and their husbands.

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Section: Informed Consentmentioning

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Saudi female university employee self-determination in their own health-related issues

Hallila

Al-Halabi

2018

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“…16,17 A sufficient level of comprehension is required to allow patients to completely understand the information provided, with the time and opportunity to read, evaluate, and consider the information presented. 18,19 Furthermore, satisfactory informed consent decreased the psychological burden of patients. In the present study, there were different degrees of psychological reactions in patients after perioperative communication with doctors (Table 3), similar to the results of other studies before examination.…”

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Psychological status of patients with nephrotic syndrome undergoing percutaneous renal biopsy

Peng

et al. 2015

Journal of the Chinese Medical Association

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“…Last reason of refusal (10.7%) is requesting an opinion from another hospital, and this point must be studied and administrator of hospitals to let patient trust their hospitals should study how One of the suggestions from surgeons to improve consent process is to educate surgeons (19%), and this is compatible with the previous study. in which 78% of Saudi surgeons think all doctors should receive training on informed consent and 83% of surgeons from the United Kingdom agree also (9) .…”

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Knowledge, Opinions and Attitude of Surgeons in Saudi Arabia toward Informed Surgical Consent

Alsaihati

alotaibi

Alhawaj

et al. 2017

Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine

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Background: Informed consent has become a vital factor for the clinical treatment of modern practice in the medical field, it is participating in legal, ethical and administrative compliance side. However, informed consent is variably applicable and rarely fulfills its theoretical ideal. Disclosure of adequate information is very important before signing informed consent. It is important to make patient enable to take a proper decision with good knowledge about his/her case. Informed consent for the surgical procedure is consent that taken from the patient before surgical operations and invasive procedures after explaining advantages and disadvantages. Getting patient's signature for the consent of operations and the surgical procedure is surgeon's job. The opinion of the surgeon about informed consent is important, as that may affect the performance of surgeon in explaining procedure with its risks and benefits. Aim: Assessment of knowledge, opinion, and attitude of surgeons towards informed consents. Find out how to improve the quality of informed consent from surgeons' suggestions. Method: This cross-sectional study is questionnaire-based study. Our target was to reach many surgeons in Saudi Arabia with different specialties, different status and from different hospitals. We take our sample using random sampling technique. We selected surgeons from each hospital that our data collector can reach and enter easily. Collection of data was done by interview. Our questionnaire contained four parts in addition to demographic data part. The first part was asking about surgeons' opinions regarding informed surgical consent process. The second part was responsible for inquire about obtaining informed surgical consent. The third part is about the refusal to sign informed surgical consent. Last part is to ask about surgeons' suggestions to improve informed surgical consent. Result: Total number of respondents was 140 (Response rate is 93.3%). Around 34% of participants agreed that surgeons don't give adequate information about the surgical procedure. 33.6% insisted to know about their surgery. After asking each surgeon about the importance of informed surgical consent they selected the following answers in descending order; informing patients about advantages, hazards and alternatives (81.4%), Medico-legal importance (79.3%), decision taking about procedure (72.1%), hospital policy (50.7%) and surgical tradition (19.3%). Most of the doctors (85%) complained that sometimes, their patients refused to sign consent. Fear was the most common cause of singing consent refusal according to opinions of 62.9% of surgeons. Conclusion: Surgeons in Saudi Arabia have acceptable knowledge about informed surgical consent and how to obtain it. But still there were some opinions of surgeons opposite to what is practiced, and also some of them practiced something not ideal while obtaining informed surgical consents. However, most of the surgeons know the importance of consent and what is important to be disclosed in it. In general, the fre...

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Attitudes Towards Informed Consent: A Comparison Between Surgeons Working in Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom

Cited by 9 publications

References 5 publications

Saudi female university employee self-determination in their own health-related issues

Saudi female university employee self-determination in their own health-related issues

Psychological status of patients with nephrotic syndrome undergoing percutaneous renal biopsy

Knowledge, Opinions and Attitude of Surgeons in Saudi Arabia toward Informed Surgical Consent

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