1Assistant Professor, Department of Community and Family Medicine, College of Medicine
2Fifth year Medical Students, College of Medicine
35th Year Medical Student, College of Medicine
4Fifth Year Medical Students, College of Medicine
55th Yar Medical Student, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, SA
6Fifth Year Medical Students, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, SA
*Corresponding author: Prof. Dr. Al-Said Haffor, Ph. D. Professor, Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, Dar Al-Uloum University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 11512, email: saidhaffor@yahoo.com; a.haffor@dau.edu.sa; ahaffor@ksu.edu.sa
Online published on 16 January, 2016.
The primary purpose of the present study was to identify the level of awareness among hospitalized patients about their rights. The secondary purpose was to identify the differential awareness of hospitalized patients based on their citizenship status, educational level and region.
Across sectional descriptive questionnaire based interview was completed among hospitalized patients in medical and surgical wards.
Most of the patients do not know about their rights (69.3%), 78% did not know about the bill of rights and 74% the patients do not have a university degree. Non Saudi residents have higher level of awareness than Saudi citizens. Patients who lives in Riyadh City had higher level of awareness than patients live in rural regions.
Based on the results of the present study it can be concluded that most of hospitalized patients in Saudi Arabia are not aware about their rights.
Patients ’Right, Awareness of rights, bill of rights
