Assessment of Hospitalized Patients ’Awareness of their Rights in Saudi Arabia 2023

Abstract

  Background

    Optimal patient care varies considerably from place to place and is influenced by scientific as well as social developments in order to improve the standard of care in this modern era and in the speedily changing atmosphere of health care, health care practice and patients has affected by many factors. These days in many different countries the patient rights has become the pivot of the national attention in medical culture. Awareness of hospitalized patients ’awareness of their rights health is important to achieve the best level of health care.  Legislations on patients’ rights have been passed throughout the globe since the Human Rights Act was published by the United Nations in 1948. Patients’ rights were also addressed in the 1964 Helsinki Declaration on the rights of research subjects in the 1968 Sydney Declaration on organ transplantations in the 1977 World Health Organization target decision ‘Health for All in the Year 2000’, and in the 1978 Alma-Ata ‘Basic Health Services’ Declaration. Passing a regulation is not a guarantee for the protection of patients’ rights. Studies from different countries have reported infringement of patients' rights, such as not giving informed consent, not being informed and not receiving protection of their privacy.

Aim of the study: To assessment of Hospitalized Patients ’Awareness of their Rights in Saudi Arabia 2023.

Methods: Across sectional descriptive study conducted among  hospitalized patients in the internal medicine and general surgery wards in three large hospitals during the study period were eligible for the study in Saudi Arabia 2023 during  July, 2023 to September 2023,  Our total Sample size of participants were (500)

Results: show that most of them aged over 60 years were (36.0%) ,  gender the most participant  male were (67.0%), nationality the most of participant Saudi were (95.0%), levels of education it was found that majority of the participants had university were (25.0%),  occupation  the most of participant were government employees (67.0%), family income state, (33.0% )of participants had income range between 5000-10000.

Conclusion: the level of awareness of patients’ rights among hospitalized patients among hospitalized patients in the studied Saudi hospitals, there was a lack of patients' awareness regarding the patients' rights most of the clients were not conscious of their individual health rights. About some of the sample knew that the patients will receive respectful care and the patients will receive care in clean and medically safe environment.