[Protecting patients' privacy by medical team and its relation to patients' satisfaction]

Privacy is a basic humanity principle. Protecting patients' privacy is a necessity in health care organizations; and along with the patients' satisfaction, is one of the main indicators of quality of care. The objective of this study was to assess patients' privacy protecting by medical staff and its relation to patients' satisfaction. This is a cross-sectional survey in which 360 inpatients were recruited using convenience sampling method from an emergency department. Data were collected using a questionnaire and were analyzed using statistical tests in the SPSS. According to the results, about one half of the patients reported poor privacy protecting and one other half [49.4%] reported that their privacy was protected "relatively good" to "good". A strong correlation was found between level of privacy protected and the patients' satisfaction in various dimensions. There was significant correlation between some of demographic variables with privacy protecting and patients' satisfaction. In our study, protecting patients' privacy and also patients' satisfaction was not generally appropriate. More attempts of clinicians are required to improve the quality of care to promote patients' privacy as well as patients' satisfaction

[Nurses and inpatient adolescents' perceptions on observance of privacy and its importance]

Privacy is one of basic rights of the patients. Privacy becomes important for the adolescents when they hospitalize in an unfamiliar environment. This study aimed to compare the perceptions of inpatient adolescents with nurses on the observance of privacy and its importance. In this cross-sectional study, 175 nurses and a convenience sample of 180 inpatient adolescents who had met the inclusion criteria were recruited to the study. Data was gathered using a questionnaire. Man-whitney u and kruskal-wallis statistical tests were used to analyze the data. The results showed that there was significant differences between nurses' and inpatient adolescents` perceptions on the observance of privacy and its importance [man-whitney u, P<0.001]. The most important priority regarding the privacy from nurses' point of view was "covering the unnecessary parts of the body while caring"; whilst it was "providing a pleasant decorated environment, telephone, toilet and bath in room, and hospitalization in a room with peers" from the adolescents' point of view. The most observed case about privacy from the nurses' point of view was "taking immediate action to help the teenagers if necessary"; whilst, from the adolescents view, it was "calling them with their favorite names". The mean perceptions of nurses were higher than the adolescences toward observance of privacy and its importance. The results can guide nurses to improve quality of care for this group