A Study on Privacy Protection for Obstetrics and Gynecology Patients Mutually Sharing Hospital Wards
10.2185/jjrm.62.151
- VernacularTitle:混合病棟における産婦人科疾患患者のプライバシー保護に関する研究
- Author:
Kaori WATANABE
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:Journal of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine
2013;62(2):151-157
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
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Abstract:
Obstetric and gynecologic disease cannot be analyzed without “gender” taken into account, because patients are likely to fear sterility and feel embarrassed in the delivery of medical care and treatment beside stigma against disease and treatment. There is the need to seriously take account of the emotion of patients with obstetric and gynecological problems particularly in a ward where a division of gynecology is juxtaposed with that of obstetrics (delivery room) and/or a gynecology division in a mutually shared ward - as is the case with such obstetrics and gynecology wards available all over the nation - as studies on privacy protection in those types of wards are barely available. That said, we studied to clarify the details of privacy protection of the sort inpatients would wish to enjoy and their impression about privacy protection and correlated factors. Made from May 2008 to May 2009, the study consisted of two researches: Research 1 employed a semi-structured interview method for 15 subjects, and Research 2 used a questionnaire survey method for 85 subjects. Three important items on privacy protection were derived from the results of Research 1, and an analysis of the results of Research 2 on the basis of those 3 items suggested that briefings in the early phase of hospitalization would have a favorable impact even upon the patients’ mental reaction to subsequent privacy protection.
