Aim of the study. To evaluate mental health care institution staff’ and patients’ opinion about application of the doctrine of informed consent.
Objectives: 1. To evaluate personal health care specialists’ opinion about application of the doctrine of informed consent in the health care institution. 2. To evaluate patients’ opinion about procedure of the written consent. 3. To compare personal health care specialists’ and patients’ opinion about application of the doctrine of informed consent.
Methods. Anonymous survey of 138 personal health care specialists (response rate – 84 percent) and 315 patients (response rate – 90 percent) at Vilnius mental health centre was carried out. SPSS 13.0 version of statistic analysis packet was used to process the data. Diagrams and tables were prepared using Microsoft Excel 2003 program.
Results. In evaluation of necessity of given information, 54,1% of personal health care specialists indicated that patient should be fully informed about his health status and diagnosis, 42,2% indicated that such information for mental health patients should be given just partially. 21,7% of patients claimed that information about prognosis and possible results of treatment given by doctors was unclear. In evaluation of procedure of written consent, 31,2% of specialists evaluated it as a manner for the doctor’s insurance and 24,9% – as an instrument for the protection of patient’s rights. Half of patients (49,9%) maintained that procedure of written consent... [to full text]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LABT_ETD/oai:elaba.lt:LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2006~D_20060620_121708-57784 |
| Date | 20 June 2006 |
| Creators | Paukštytė, Irena |
| Contributors | Misevičienė, Irena, Gendvilis, Stasys, Kairys, Jonas, Tamošiūnas, Abdonas, Bučiūnienė, Ilona, Kalėdienė, Ramunė, Petrauskienė, Jadvyga, Kaunas University of Medicine |
| Publisher | Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), Kaunas University of Medicine |
| Source Sets | Lithuanian ETD submission system |
| Language | Lithuanian |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Master thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2006~D_20060620_121708-57784 |
| Rights | Unrestricted |
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