Attention Paid by Nurses to Patient's Privacy-A Study on Nurses Working in Operating Rooms of Educational Hospitals in Zahedan 2016

Privacy is the most important right for the patient. Lack of privacy could lead to so many other problems. So this study aimed to investigate that how much do the nurses think they pay attention to patient's privacy?

This was a cross-sectional study. Respondents were 70 nurses working in Operating Rooms of educational hospitals of Zahedan University of Medical Sciences. They were chosen randomly for this study. The data was collected through a two part questionnaire. The first part was about the demographic information. Second part was the patient's privacy questionnaire. Data were analyzed through descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation and T-Test by SPSS v.19.

The mean of age was 26.99 ± 6.95 in this study. 55 respondents were female while 15 were male. The total score of patient's privacy consideration was 41.05 ± 7.33 which shows a medium consideration. 5 respondents stated that the patient's privacy consideration is poor, 35 said its moderate and 30 said it's good. Patient's privacy consideration from nurse's attitude was good in physical dimension, moderate in informational dimension and good in social dimension. There wasn't any significant relationship between age, sex and attitude toward patient's privacy consideration. But females had a more positive attitude toward the patient's privacy consideration

The results of this study had shown that the level of the patient's privacy consideration is moderate from nurse's attitude. Also it was moderate in physical dimension and good in informational and social dimension.