Shabnam Ghazanfari; Sedigheh Ebrahimi; Omid Asemani
Abstract
Background: Despite many studies, we are still in need of more investigations aiming at the implementation of patients’ rights in Iran; this would be more important concerning vulnerable groups like women. In this way, we have tried to study how much are Iranian women justified about Iranian patients’ ...
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Background: Despite many studies, we are still in need of more investigations aiming at the implementation of patients’ rights in Iran; this would be more important concerning vulnerable groups like women. In this way, we have tried to study how much are Iranian women justified about Iranian patients’ rights charter and how much are their rights observed during hospitalization.
Methods: In this descriptive cross-sectional study, 150 competent in-patients were selected by simple random sampling. A previously validated (face, content, and construct validity) and reliable (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.92) questionnaire was used to collect data. The questionnaire was designed based on the last version of Iranian patient rights charter and included four subscales. The data were analyzed by SPSS 21 using parametric statistics.
Results: Patients’ rights charter was practiced weak (0.76 ± 0.24 out of 3) according to the patients. The weakest score was observed for the dimension of ‘accountability and handling of complaints’ (0.09 ± 0.27). Generally, the participants placed a relative importance (justified relatively well) for the charter (2.20 ± 0.46). Additionally, the "importance" of the rights was also significantly different regarding patients’ educational (P < 0.001) and employment status (P < 0.001) and place of residence (P < 0.001). No significant correlation was determined between "Importance" and “performance” subscales.
Conclusions: According to the findings, more attempts should be implemented aiming at informing and sensitizing women about their rights. Therefore, establishing and/or supporting the following measures could be helpful: hospital and media-based advising programs for both patients and professionals, patients’ rights movements, systematic controls and supervisions and carrying out patients’ rights as a firm policy.
Fariba Rezaei; Sedigheh Ebrahimi
Abstract
Nowadays different crimes are committed by people enticed away from the truth and deceived by devil, only to achieve their per-sonal goals and maintain their individual liberty. One of the greatest sins committed in this world is abortion. The fetus is a humanbeing from the very beginning and has the ...
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Nowadays different crimes are committed by people enticed away from the truth and deceived by devil, only to achieve their per-sonal goals and maintain their individual liberty. One of the greatest sins committed in this world is abortion. The fetus is a humanbeing from the very beginning and has the right to live. Although the mother has a right to decide what shall happen in and to herbody, her rights cannot be privileged over those of the unborn child. Therefore, the life of every human being should be respected.The most common attempts were made to show that the unborn child does not have the right to burden the female reproductiverights and women’s right to abortion. According to the universal declaration of human rights, every human being has the naturalright over his own life and this rule encompasses all members of the human society including human embryo. All of them are sup-posed to have human personality and ethical rights. Thus, it is not permitted to deprive an embryo of his future life. The purposein the current overview was to attempt an explanation of the questionable notion of the abortion. The paper puts forward a briefargument about abortion versus the right of fetus to live.
