부산대학교 도서관

Research problem and purpose: It is often heard that patients' privacy has been violated, and due to ignorance, people have unconsciously violated the patients' privacy and leaked their secrets. This study aims to improves the quality of care by comparing the patients' and the nursing staff's perceptions of privacy to determine whether the nursing staff is clinically maintaining patient confidentiality. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study, using inpatients and nursing staff in a regional teaching hospital in central Taiwan as the subjects. This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of the hospital. The period of this study was from June 1, 2020 to September 30, 2020. There are effective recovered questionnaires from 161 inpatients and 156 nursing staff members. The statistical method was analyzed by SPSS 22.0. Results and recommendations: most of the inpatients are male, with university (junior college) degrees, married, staying in three (or more)-persons wards, with an average age of 55.70. Most of the nursing staff are female, university degree, unmarried, with an average age of 29.67. The highest patient privacy score from the patients belongs to 'Environmental Privacy', and the lowest belongs to 'Gender Privacy and Management System'. The highest patient privacy score from the nursing staff belongs to 'Body Privacy', and the lowest belongs to 'Gender Privacy and Management System'. A comparative analysis the patients' and the nurses' perceptions of patient privacy shows that the nursing staff's scores are higher than patients's in all aspects. The perceived patient privacy from the nursing staff's perspectives is higher than from the inpatients's perspectives, showing that inpatients and nursing staff are inconsistent in views of patient's privacy; thus, hospitals need to enhance the nursing staff' education about the patient's privacy.