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Patients’ Dignity and Its Relationship with Contextual Variables: A Cross-Sectional Study

Introduction: Dignity is considered as fundamental human needs and recognized as one of the central concepts in nursing science. The aim of this study was to assess the extent to which patients’ dignity is respected and to evalutae its relationship with contextual variables. Methods: This cross-sect...

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Autores principales: Zirak, Mohammad, Ghafourifard, Mansour, Aliafsari Mamaghani, Ebrahim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tabriz University of Medical Sciences 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5348662/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28299297
http://dx.doi.org/10.15171/jcs.2017.006
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Ghafourifard, Mansour
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description Introduction: Dignity is considered as fundamental human needs and recognized as one of the central concepts in nursing science. The aim of this study was to assess the extent to which patients’ dignity is respected and to evalutae its relationship with contextual variables. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 256 hospitalized patients in the two teaching hospitals affiliated to Zanjan University of medical sciences, Iran. Data were collected by a questionnaire consist of two sections: (a) demographic characteristics, and (b) patient dignity including 32 questions. Data were analyzed by SPSS (ver.13) software using independent t-test, ANOVA and Pearson correlation. Results: The result showed that the mean (standard deviation) of total score of patient’s dignity was 108.17 (25.28). According to the result, the majority of the respondents (76.2%) were not aware of patient’s rights. There was a significant difference in mean scores of total dignity between single and married persons, living in city or village, and hospitalization in Moosavi and Valiasr hospital. Conclusion: Health care systems should take the provision of the patients' dignity into account through using a comprehensive educational program for informing of patient, family members, and health professionals about patients’ dignity.
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spelling pubmed-53486622017-03-15 Patients’ Dignity and Its Relationship with Contextual Variables: A Cross-Sectional Study Zirak, Mohammad Ghafourifard, Mansour Aliafsari Mamaghani, Ebrahim J Caring Sci Original Article Introduction: Dignity is considered as fundamental human needs and recognized as one of the central concepts in nursing science. The aim of this study was to assess the extent to which patients’ dignity is respected and to evalutae its relationship with contextual variables. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 256 hospitalized patients in the two teaching hospitals affiliated to Zanjan University of medical sciences, Iran. Data were collected by a questionnaire consist of two sections: (a) demographic characteristics, and (b) patient dignity including 32 questions. Data were analyzed by SPSS (ver.13) software using independent t-test, ANOVA and Pearson correlation. Results: The result showed that the mean (standard deviation) of total score of patient’s dignity was 108.17 (25.28). According to the result, the majority of the respondents (76.2%) were not aware of patient’s rights. There was a significant difference in mean scores of total dignity between single and married persons, living in city or village, and hospitalization in Moosavi and Valiasr hospital. Conclusion: Health care systems should take the provision of the patients' dignity into account through using a comprehensive educational program for informing of patient, family members, and health professionals about patients’ dignity. Tabriz University of Medical Sciences 2017-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5348662/ /pubmed/28299297 http://dx.doi.org/10.15171/jcs.2017.006 Text en © 2017 by The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is published by Journal of Caring Sciences as an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Patients’ Dignity and Its Relationship with Contextual Variables: A Cross-Sectional Study
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title_full Patients’ Dignity and Its Relationship with Contextual Variables: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_fullStr Patients’ Dignity and Its Relationship with Contextual Variables: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_full_unstemmed Patients’ Dignity and Its Relationship with Contextual Variables: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_short Patients’ Dignity and Its Relationship with Contextual Variables: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_sort patients’ dignity and its relationship with contextual variables: a cross-sectional study
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5348662/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28299297
http://dx.doi.org/10.15171/jcs.2017.006
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