Cognition and countermeasures of medical science and technology ethics management among medical staff in five tertiary hospitals in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
10.12026/j.issn.1001-8565.2025.01.10
- VernacularTitle:医护人员医学科技伦理管理认知现状及改善建议
- Author:
Yi ZHANG
1
;
Jiajie HE
1
Author Information
1. School of Humanities and Management, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan 750004, China
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
tertiary hospital;
medical staff;
medical science and technology ethics management;
ethical review
- From:
Chinese Medical Ethics
2025;38(1):63-71
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
ObjectiveTo understand the current situation and influencing factors of cognition level, as well as existing problems in the construction of medical science and technology ethics management among medical staff in five tertiary hospitals in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, to provide references for enhancing their awareness of medical science and technology ethics management and improving the quality of clinical research. MethodsUsing a self-designed and validated “Medical Science and Technology Ethics Management Cognitive Questionnaire for Medical Staff,” medical staff from five tertiary hospitals in five cities in Ningxia were selected as the research subjects for investigation. ResultsFinally, 436 valid questionnaires were collected, among which the total average score for medical staff’s cognition of medical science and technology ethics management was (61.58±12.96) points. The scores of ethics system cognition, ethics committee cognition, ethics education and training cognition, and ethics management informatization cognition were (14.18±2.84) points, (24.19±5.47) points, (15.07±4.00) points, and (8.14±4.42) points, respectively. Multiple linear regression analysis showed that age, work city, education level, professional title, whether they had assessed the implementation of the hospital ethics system, whether they had participated in the hospital’s ethics review work, and whether they had organized or participated the hospital’s ethics training, were all influencing factors on the cognitive score of medical science and technology ethics management among medical staff, which can explain 51.00% of the variation (P<0.05). Medical staff considered that inadequate promotion of ethical systems, opaque ethical review procedures and processes, conflicts between ethical training time and work tasks, and the lack of a dedicated ethical review information platform were the main problems in constructing medical science and technology ethics. ConclusionThe cognition level of medical science and technology ethics management among medical staff in tertiary hospitals in Ningxia was generally not high and was influenced by various factors. Hospital managers should strengthen the publicity and training of ethical systems, as well as improve their implementation and supervision mechanisms; standardize ethical review procedures and processes, as well as build an ethical review information platform; increase investment in ethics education and arrange training time reasonably, to enhance the awareness of medical science and technology ethics management among medical staff and improve the quality of clinical research.