Respect the rights of patient in terms of hospitalized clients: a cross-sectional survey in Iran, 2010

Patient participates in decision making and preserve of their rights cause treatment improvement, short hospitalized duration, and treatment costs and prevents from physical and emotional irreparable damages. Present survey which is a cross sectional descriptive-analytic was conducted on 416 inpatients of Hamedan hospitals in simple randomized sampling. Data collecting instruments was a questionnaire contains demographic information and awareness questions regarding patient rights which its reliability and validity was made through the same measurement by tow researchers. Data was analyzed by use of SPSS. Based on Respect the rights of patient in terms of hospitalized clients score was 10.36 +/- 3.1. Low respect rate of patient's bill of right was 11.5%, medium 55.8%, and High 24%, in total. Mean day of hospitalized was 3.46 +/- 2.7. There was a significant statistic between patient respect and level of education (PV<0.0005), life location (PV<0.0005), ideas about awareness of patient's bill of right (PV<0.0005), but these relationship was not very powerful due to Cramer's V smaller than 0.05. Based on the survey, in most patients the rate of Respect the rights of patient were medium. One of important causes is low patient knowledge about patient rights. Therefore, it is recommended that perform an extensive trainings on patients and healthcare professionals.