Patient’s
knowledge about their “
disease condition and rights creates a
benchmark for effective doctor-
patient communication”. Informed
patients are better aware of their
diseases,
treatment, and care thus, they should also be made to actively participate in their own care. For these reason
health care worker should educate the
patient regarding their
disease condition.METHODSA
cross-sectional study was conducted among 196 indoor
patients of a
tertiary care teaching hospital of Wardha city using 21
questionnaire based on NABH &
patients right charter. The sampling was done by
simple random sampling method. Written inform consent was taken from
patients who were admitted as indoor
patients and had remained beyond 3 weeks in the
hospital. Descriptive
analysis was carried out in order to evaluate the
measures of the collected result.RESULTSMost of the
patients were
adults followed by older
adults with a percentage of 53.6% and 34.7% respectively. The percentages of
male and
female patients admitted were 45.9% and 54.1% respectively.
Patients from
urban areas were more aware than those from
rural areas.
Education plays an important
role in
patients’ rights as most of the variables were found to be statistically significant.CONCLUSIONSThis study concludes that there is a need for raising
knowledge and
awareness to educate the
patients about their rights. Along with their rights, the
patients should know about their responsibilities in the
hospital as well.