Patients’ Awareness About Their Rights: A Study from Coastal South India

Unnikrishnan, Bhaskaran; Trivedi, Divya; Kanchan, Tanuj; Rekha, T; Mithra, Prasanna; Kumar, Nithin; Kulkarni, Vaman; Holla, Ramesh; Talish, Mishaal

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“…Patient rights are an amalgamation of legal and ethical issues concerning the doctor-patient relationship, which includes the patient’s right to privacy, confidentiality, access to quality healthcare services, the right to make informed decisions about treatment options, etc. [ 3 ]. Patients’ rights vary in different countries and are influenced by the country-related and social factors of the area [ 4 ].…”

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Patients’ Awareness of Their Rights and Responsibilities: A Cross-Sectional Study From Al-Ahsa

Aljeezan¹,

Altaher²,

Boushal³

et al. 2022

Cureus

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Introduction Patient rights are an essential part of healthcare practice. In fact, patients are one of the most vulnerable members of society. As a result, improving the rights of patients is considered a priority in medical services. Aim The purpose of this study is to measure the level of patients’ awareness of their rights. Subjects and methods This is a cross-sectional study conducted among patients living in Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia. A self-administered questionnaire was distributed among Al-Ahsa patients using an online survey. The questionnaire was composed of socio-demographic variables (i.e., age, gender, education, etc.), sources of patient information regarding patients, means of increasing awareness toward patients' rights, and a 15-item questionnaire to measure the awareness about patient rights and responsibilities. Results Among the 295 patients, 59.7% were males and 39% were aged between 31 and 40 years old. The overall mean awareness score was 54.6 (SD 7.44). 53.2% of the patients were categorized as having moderate awareness levels, 44.1% were good and only 2.7% were categorized as having poor levels of awareness. Factors associated with increased awareness were being older, hospital admission, hospital visitation for the last three months, and healthcare providers as the sources of the patient's right information. Conclusion There was sufficient awareness of patient rights and responsibilities in our region. Increasing age, frequent hospital visitation, and education given by healthcare providers could effectively improve awareness of patient rights and responsibilities. A multicenter study is required to shed more light on the awareness of patients regarding their rights and responsibilities.

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Patients’ Awareness of Their Rights and Responsibilities: A Cross-Sectional Study From Al-Ahsa

Aljeezan¹,

Altaher²,

Boushal³

et al. 2022

Cureus

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“…However, the situation might differ between patients in cities and urban and rural areas, mainly due to differences in the level of knowledge and how they perceive their rights and responsibilities within the physician-patient relationship. Patients coming from a low level of education and low socio-economic class might not be aware of their rights, and most of them have no courage to request further ( 32 , 33 ). Such lack of awareness results from an emergent social distance between physician and patient ( 34 ).…”

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Experience of Indonesian medical students of ethical issues during their clinical clerkship in a rural setting

Wicaksono¹,

Ferine²,

Lestari³

et al. 2021

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Although ethics is an essential part of medical education, little attention has been paid to ethics education during the clerkship phase, where medical students observe how physicians make decisions regarding various ethical problems. Specific nuances and cultural contexts such as working in a rural setting can determine ethical issues raised. This phenomenology study aimed to explore ethical issues experienced by Indonesian students during clinical clerkship in a rural setting. In-depth interviews were used to explore students’ experiences. Participants were ten students, selected on gender and clerkship year variations. Data saturation was reached after eight interviews, followed by two additional interviews. Thematic analysis was used in this study, and trustworthiness was ensured through data and investigator triangulation, member checking, and audit trail. Three main themes found in this study were limited facilities and resources, healthcare financing and consent issues, as well as unprofessional behavior of healthcare providers. Many ethical issues related to substandard care were associated to limited resources and complexities within the healthcare system in the rural setting. Early exposure to recurrent ethical problems in healthcare can help students prepare for their future career as a physician in a rural setting.

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“…Patient rights movements and civil society organisations arguing for improved accountability in healthcare are gathering momentum across the globe and more so in LMICs. 40 Although the rhetoric on patient rights is burgeoning, empirical research in this area is nascent and most of the existing research studies 42–45 limit themselves to studying awareness of patient rights. Also, the available frameworks in the literature identify the typology of patients rights 8 and a few other attempt to situate the patients rights within the larger human rights framework.…”

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Towards a multilevel governance framework on the implementation of patient rights in health facilities: a protocol for a systematic scoping review

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IntroductionPatient rights are “those rights that are attributed to a person seeking healthcare”. Patient rights have implications for quality of healthcare and acts as a key accountability tool. It can galvanise structural improvements in the health system and reinforces ethical healthcare. States are duty bound to respect, protect and promote patient rights. The rhetoric on patient rights is burgeoning across the globe. With changing modes of governance arrangements, a number of state and non-state actors and institutions at various levels play a role in the design and implementation of (patient rights) policies. However, there is limited understanding on the multilevel institutional mechanisms for patient rights implementation in health facilities. We attempt to fill this gap by analysing the available scholarship on patient rights through a critical interpretive synthesis approach in a systematic scoping review.MethodsThe review question is ‘how do the multilevel actors, institutional structures, processes interact and influence the patient rights implementation in healthcare facilities? How do they work at what level and in which contexts?” Three databases PubMed, LexisNexis and Web of Science will be systematically searched until 30th April 2020, for empirical and non-empirical literature in English from both lower middle-income countries and high-income countries. Targeted search will be performed in grey literature and through citation and reference tracking of key records. Using the critical interpretive synthesis approach, a multilevel governance framework on the implementation of patient rights in health facilities which is grounded in the data will be developed.Ethics and disseminationThe review uses published literature hence ethics approval is not required. The findings of the review will be published in a peer-reviewed journal.Registration numberPROSPERO 2020 CRD42020176939

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Patients’ Awareness About Their Rights: A Study from Coastal South India

Cited by 13 publications

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Patients’ Awareness of Their Rights and Responsibilities: A Cross-Sectional Study From Al-Ahsa

Patients’ Awareness of Their Rights and Responsibilities: A Cross-Sectional Study From Al-Ahsa

Experience of Indonesian medical students of ethical issues during their clinical clerkship in a rural setting

Towards a multilevel governance framework on the implementation of patient rights in health facilities: a protocol for a systematic scoping review

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