Authors : Mehdi Kahouei, Farzaneh Kazemzadeh, Zahra Ahmadi and Jamileh Mahdi Zadeh
Abstract: People referring to the health centers should always be aware of the consequences of the misuse of their information and medical records. In view to the importance of the patient’s right on the information disclosure and due to the lack of such studies, researchers aimed to study the patient’s awareness and willingness to disclose personal medical information. It is a cross-sectional study aimed to assess the inpatients’ willingness and knowledge of their medical information conducted in the affiliated hospitals of Semnan University of Medical Sciences in 2014. The 253 patients were selected as the statistical society. The results showed that patients had little information about the ways of transferring their medical information. On the other hand, they were reluctant to transfer their information outside the hospital. It seems that the cooperation of media is essential to increase public awareness. Also, training medical staff to increase their knowledge about the rights of the patients and also increasing the patients’ awareness with the brochure on admission and the patient’s justification of its contents may be necessary.
Mehdi Kahouei, Farzaneh Kazemzadeh, Zahra Ahmadi and Jamileh Mahdi Zadeh, 2015. The Survey of the Patients’ Willingness and Awareness on the Disclosure of Medical and Social Information. The Social Sciences, 10: 691-695.