Narayan Kruthika, Hooker Claire, Jarrett Carmen, Bennett David
Centre for Values, Ethics and Law in Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Centre for the Advancement of Adolescent Health, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
J Paediatr Child Health. 2013 Nov;49(11):891-894. doi: 10.1111/jpc.12430. Epub 2013 Oct 31.
Human dignity as an important consideration in health care has been primarily investigated from an adult perspective. This paper explores young people's perceptions of dignity and how it impacts on their health-care experience.
A qualitative pilot study was undertaken at the Children's Hospital, Westmead in from 2010 to 2011. Semistructured interviews were conducted with five inpatients, and data were analysed using a grounded theory approach.
The adolescents interviewed perceived dignity as a way of protecting their personhood. Privacy and maintaining integrity were the means by which dignity could be preserved in a health-care setting.
The study found that young people had unique perceptions of privacy and personhood with regards to dignity. Of the concepts of dignity in the existing literature, the dignity of identity was most applicable to adolescents' conceptions. This understanding of young people's views of dignity could prevent dignity violations in health care and beneficially impact their development.
人类尊严作为医疗保健中的一个重要考量因素，主要是从成人视角进行研究的。本文探讨了年轻人对尊严的看法以及尊严如何影响他们的医疗保健体验。
2010年至2011年在韦斯特米德儿童医院进行了一项定性试点研究。对五名住院患者进行了半结构化访谈，并采用扎根理论方法对数据进行了分析。
接受访谈的青少年将尊严视为保护其人格的一种方式。隐私和保持完整是在医疗保健环境中维护尊严的手段。
该研究发现，年轻人在尊严方面对隐私和人格有独特的看法。在现有文献中的尊严概念中，身份尊严最适用于青少年的观念。对年轻人尊严观的这种理解可以防止医疗保健中的尊严侵犯，并对他们的发展产生有益影响。
