The survey Awareness of Students in Hamadan School of Rehabilitation about Patients’ Rights Charter

Abstract

Introduction: Patients’ right charter has been implemented for equal accessibility to all healthcare services. knowledge and regard of Patients' Rights is important to improve quality and strengthen the health system and patient satisfaction. The current study has been done with aim of evaluating the survey awareness of students in Hamedan school rehabilitation about patients’ charter.

Methods: This cross-sectional, descriptive, and analytical study was performed. The study population included 143 students (all of them) in rehabilitation facility. The data-gathering tool was a valid and reliable questionnaire based on the elements of Iran patients' rights developed by the Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MOHME).The collected data were analyzed by descriptive and analytical statistics using SPSS 23 software.

Result: The results show that students were 64.3% female and 35.7% male. 44.1% occupational therapists, 30.8% speech therapists, 25.2% audiologists. The inputs of the year 92 were 8.4%, the inputs of the year 93 were 34.3%, the inputs of the year 94 were 35% and the inputs of the year 95 were 22.4%. The total awareness of students was 10.62 ± 4.70 There was a significant relationship between knowledge of access to the effective system of complaints and access to information and the year of entry students (P = 0.02). There wasn't significant relationship between gender and Age and field of study the students’ awareness (P = 0.14) (P > 0.05).

Conclusion: Approximately half of the participated students had low level of awareness about patients’ charter right .Therefore, it is suggested that greater emphasis should be placed on inclusion and support of patients' rights in course and curriculum planning is necessary.