INTRODUCTION:
ABSTRACT
Informed consent is the process in which the doctor provides enough knowledge to educate his patient about the risks and benefits of a procedure and the patient should also be made aware of all the alternative options with their risks and benefits, then they should be allowed to make a decision for themselves. In order to discover the level of awareness and practice of inform consent we surveyed surgical residents of tertiary care hospitals in Pakistan’s city Peshawar
METHODS:
The research design for this study was a cross sectional descriptive survey which was carried out in three government tertiary care hospitals of Peshawar KPK. The duration of this study was 3 months from July – October 2021. Convenient sampling was performed, and 255 participants were involved. Inclusion criteria for this study were surgical and allied specialty. The questionnaire was self-structured questionnaire.
RESULTS:
The respondent’s characteristics of 255 participants showed that 63.8% of the respondents have excellent awareness, 34.6% have good awareness and 1.6% have fair awareness about informed consent. Also among these 255 participants, 92.2% have excellent practice and 7.8% have good practice of informed consent. There is no significant difference between awareness rank of post graduate trainees in various hospitals because p value is greater than 0.05 while there is high significant difference between practice rank of post graduate trainees of various hospitals because p value is less than 0.05.
CONCLUSION:
The participants had excellent awareness about informed consent and good practice but still improvement is needed which can be achieved by training the doctors in under graduate level and also in post graduate level.
Keywords: Informed consent, awareness, practice, non-compliance
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