Alagesan Anitha, Vaswani Vina, Vaswani Ravi, Kulkarni Uma
Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopaedics, A.J. Institute of Dental Sciences, Mangalore, Karnataka, India.
Department of Forensic Medicine, Yenepoya University, Mangalore, Karnataka, India.
Contemp Clin Dent. 2015 Sep;6(Suppl 1):S242-7. doi: 10.4103/0976-237X.166822.
Despite fixed professional opinion of what might constitute optimal treatment, patients must be informed of the various treatment options available in orthodontics to manage their clinical problem. The purpose of this study was to compare and evaluate the knowledge and awareness among practicing orthodontists and patients with regard to informed consent in clinical practice and research.
Twenty-five orthodontists and 25 patients were enrolled in a questionnaire study which was descriptive and cross-sectional in the nature. The questionnaire focused on the following aspects; contents of informed consent, at what age and who can give consent.
The study showed a majority of orthodontists (79.14%) were aware of knowledge regarding informed consent when compared to patients(35.14%).
The overall result showed the huge gap that exists between orthodontists and patients and thus making it categorical for patients to be more involved in the decision-making process.
尽管对于什么可能构成最佳治疗存在固定的专业意见,但必须让患者了解正畸治疗中可用于解决其临床问题的各种治疗选择。本研究的目的是比较和评估正畸医生与患者在临床实践和研究中关于知情同意的知识和认识。
25名正畸医生和25名患者参与了一项描述性横断面问卷调查研究。问卷聚焦于以下方面:知情同意的内容、同意的年龄以及谁可以给予同意。
研究表明,与患者(35.14%)相比,大多数正畸医生(79.14%)了解有关知情同意的知识。
总体结果显示正畸医生与患者之间存在巨大差距,因此患者更有必要参与决策过程。