Information disclosure in clinical informed consent: "reasonable" patient's perception of norm in high-context communication culture.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The current doctrine of informed consent for clinical care has been developed in cultures characterized by low-context communication and monitoring-style coping. There are scarce empirical data on patients' norm perception of information disclosure in other cultures.

Methods

We surveyed 470 adults who were planning to undergo or had recently undergone a written informed consent-requiring procedure in a tertiary healthcare hospital in Saudi Arabia. Perceptions of norm and current practice were explored using a 5-point Likert scale (1 = strongly agree with disclosure) and 30 information items in 7 domains: practitioners' details, benefits, risks, complications' management, available alternatives, procedure's description, and post-procedure's issues.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Hammami MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3930349 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature