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The relationship between futile medical care and respect for patient dignity: a cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Various technologies and interventions at intensive care units can lead to futile medical care for critically ill patients. Futile medical care increases patients’ suffering and costs, reduces nurses' attention to patients, and thus affects patients’ dignity. This study aimed to inv...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9795617/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36577980 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-022-01144-1 |
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author | Nazari, Faezeh Chegeni, Maryam Shahrbabaki, Parvin Mongolian |
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description | BACKGROUND: Various technologies and interventions at intensive care units can lead to futile medical care for critically ill patients. Futile medical care increases patients’ suffering and costs, reduces nurses' attention to patients, and thus affects patients’ dignity. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between futile medical care and respect for patient dignity from the perspective of nurses working in intensive care units of medical centers. METHODS: We conducted this cross-sectional study on 160 nurses working in intensive care units in Kerman. We measured nurses’ perceptions of futile care and respect for patient dignity using futile care and patients’ dignity questionnaire. We used linear regression model to investigate the effect of futile care on the patient dignity. RESULTS: The mean severity and frequency of futile care in the intensive care unit were 57.2 ± 14.3 and 54.1 ± 19, respectively. Respect for patient privacy and respectful communication were desirable, while patients’ autonomy was not desirable. We found a significant direct relationship (p = 0.006) between the severity of futile care and respect for patient dignity, with every unit increase in futile care, a 0.01 unit increase was available in patient dignity. We observed no significant association between frequency of futile care and dignity. CONCLUSION: Our results indicated the effect of futile care on nurses’ respect for patient dignity. Nurses must raise their awareness through participating in training classes and specialized workshops to improve the level of care, the quality of care, and respect for patient dignity. |
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spelling | pubmed-97956172022-12-29 The relationship between futile medical care and respect for patient dignity: a cross-sectional study Nazari, Faezeh Chegeni, Maryam Shahrbabaki, Parvin Mongolian BMC Nurs Research BACKGROUND: Various technologies and interventions at intensive care units can lead to futile medical care for critically ill patients. Futile medical care increases patients’ suffering and costs, reduces nurses' attention to patients, and thus affects patients’ dignity. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between futile medical care and respect for patient dignity from the perspective of nurses working in intensive care units of medical centers. METHODS: We conducted this cross-sectional study on 160 nurses working in intensive care units in Kerman. We measured nurses’ perceptions of futile care and respect for patient dignity using futile care and patients’ dignity questionnaire. We used linear regression model to investigate the effect of futile care on the patient dignity. RESULTS: The mean severity and frequency of futile care in the intensive care unit were 57.2 ± 14.3 and 54.1 ± 19, respectively. Respect for patient privacy and respectful communication were desirable, while patients’ autonomy was not desirable. We found a significant direct relationship (p = 0.006) between the severity of futile care and respect for patient dignity, with every unit increase in futile care, a 0.01 unit increase was available in patient dignity. We observed no significant association between frequency of futile care and dignity. CONCLUSION: Our results indicated the effect of futile care on nurses’ respect for patient dignity. Nurses must raise their awareness through participating in training classes and specialized workshops to improve the level of care, the quality of care, and respect for patient dignity. BioMed Central 2022-12-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9795617/ /pubmed/36577980 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-022-01144-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Nazari, Faezeh Chegeni, Maryam Shahrbabaki, Parvin Mongolian The relationship between futile medical care and respect for patient dignity: a cross-sectional study |
title | The relationship between futile medical care and respect for patient dignity: a cross-sectional study |
title_full | The relationship between futile medical care and respect for patient dignity: a cross-sectional study |
title_fullStr | The relationship between futile medical care and respect for patient dignity: a cross-sectional study |
title_full_unstemmed | The relationship between futile medical care and respect for patient dignity: a cross-sectional study |
title_short | The relationship between futile medical care and respect for patient dignity: a cross-sectional study |
title_sort | relationship between futile medical care and respect for patient dignity: a cross-sectional study |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9795617/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36577980 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-022-01144-1 |
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