How Important is the Patient's Privacy From Operating Room Student's Attitude in Zahedan 2016

Healthcare providers enter patient's privacy all the time in the hospitals. Considering the privacy is a basic concept in nursing and healthcare ethical issues. It is a certain right for the patients these days. This study aimed to investigate how important is the patient's privacy from operating room student's attitude in Zahedan.

This was a cross sectional study conducted on 50 Operating Room students in Zahedan University of Medical Sciences. The data were collected through a two section questionnaire. The first section was about the demographic information. The second section was about the importance of patient's privacy. After data collection they were analyzed through descriptive statistics and chi-square test by SPSS v.19.

The mean of age was 22.52 ± 1.66. 28 respondents were female while 22 were males. There was a significant difference between males and females answers about these questions: “Early morning cares are patient's privacy disturbance” (p=0.009), “Patient's unawareness about his disease and treatment is his privacy's disturbance” (p=0.03) and “technology development and using it for keeping patient's information safe” (p=0.003).

This study suggests to implement programs for increasing the knowledge of patients in different fields of healthcare system specially their rights during getting healthcare services. These programs could lead to better healthcare services and patient's satisfaction.