住院患者尊严现状及影响因素分析

目的 了解住院患者尊严期望现状,为针对性干预提供参考.方法 采用普通话版住院患者尊严量表对442例住院患者进行问卷调查.结果 住院患者尊严期望值为48.00(40.00,53.00)分,尊严满意度为71.00(61.00,75.00)分;回归分析结果显示,性别、家庭人均月收入、住院科室是住院患者尊严期望值影响因素(均P＜0.05);近年住院经历、经济负担、文化程度是住院患者尊严满意度影响因素(均P＜0.05).结论 住院患者尊严期望值处于中度水平,满意度较高.临床护士应根据不同尊严期望值和尊严满意度患者提供个性化和针对性干预,满足其尊严期望和尊严满意度.     

商业贿赂与医患关系的生命伦理学思考

立足于维护人格尊严和生命价值,探讨了商业贿赂对医患关系的影响,指出应把病人的健康和生命放在首位,对于人的生命保持最高度的尊重,建立和谐的医患关系,使商业贿赂在神圣的生命科学领域无滋生的土壤.     

Human rights and rehabilitation outcomes

Purpose.?The aim of this article is to introduce rehabilitation professionals to the rapidly growing literature on human rights particularly as it relates to health and rehabilitation. The article aims to stimulate further discussion and debate concerning the place of human rights in rehabilitation practice.

Method.?Some important milestones in the recent history of the human rights movement are briefly outlined, and some important terms in the rights literature are explained. The Ward and Birgden model of the structure of human rights is then described as an example of a rights perspective that might have particular relevance for health and social services and rehabilitation.

Results.?A rehabilitation case study is presented as an example of how the Ward and Birgden model could have practical relevance when deciding on the most important outcomes for an individual in rehabilitation.

Conclusion.?Human rights are playing an increasing role in the struggle to improve health and healthcare globally. They also have important implications for rehabilitation practitioners and researchers and should form the core of any ethical framework for rehabilitation. It might even be argued that rights and dignity are themselves valued outcomes for rehabilitation.     

Human dignity and autonomy in the care for patients with dementia: differences among formal caretakers from various cultural backgrounds

Objectives: To explore whether gaps exist between caretakers from different ethno-cultural groups (Israeli-born Jews [Sabras], Israeli Arabs [Arabs], and migrants from Russia [Russians]) regarding their perceptions of autonomy and human dignity of patients with dementia.

Design: A mixed-methods research scheme was used, comprised of qualitative and quantitative methods, utilizing semi-structured interviews and self-reported questionnaires. Twenty formal caretakers participated in the qualitative portion, and approximately 200 caretakers were included in the quantitative portion. All participants were recruited from three nursing homes and one hospital in the Galilee region (Israel).

Results: The qualitative portion of the study yielded eight themes encapsulated in the concept of autonomy and ten themes entailed within human dignity, in the context of care for patients with dementia. By utilizing these themes in the quantitative portion, substantial differences in nursing homes were found in the attitudes to autonomy and dignity of patients with dementia between Russian and Arab as well as Sabra caretakers (index score for autonomy: 2.97, 4.07, and 4, respectively; index score for dignity: 3.17, 4.1, and 4.07). A multi-variable regression, focusing on caretakers from nursing homes, showed the most significant influencing variables on the indexes of autonomy and dignity were ethno-culture Arab/Russian (0.84, 0.62) and the patient’s family (0.29, 0.30). Regarding the autonomy index, being a female caretaker also had a significant influence (0.24). In the hospital, no influence emerged for the ethno-culture variables, and neither type of institution showed any influence of religion or religiousness as well as societal or community norms.

Conclusions: Contrary to past research, in nursing homes, significant differences were found between certain ethno-cultural groups (Arabs and Russians) regarding their stance toward the dignity and autonomy of patients with dementia. Arab caretakers’ fostering of more encompassing conceptions of dignity and autonomy, irrespective of institutional setting, provides better grounds for person-centered care.     

The basis and relevance of emotional dignity

The paper is a preliminary examination of the origin and role of psychological perception or “feeling” of dignity in human beings. Following Ayala's naturalistic account of morality, a sense of emotional dignity is seen as an outcome of processes of natural selection, cultural evolution, and above all a need for social inclusion. It is suggested that the existence of emotional dignity as part of a human species-related continuum provides an explanation of why we treat those in a persistent vegetative state, the severely and hopelessly mentally impaired, the senile demented, cadavers and archaeological remains with dignity and respect. For older Europeans, dissonance between physical and mental abilities, unfamiliarity with social and cultural changes and relative proximity to death may influence their emotional dignity and hence vulnerability. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.