26451The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China.
Nurs Ethics. 2022 Aug;29(5):1280-1292. doi: 10.1177/09697330221085777. Epub 2022 May 13.
Protecting a person's right to privacy and confidentiality is important in healthcare services. As future health professionals, nursing students should bear the same responsibility as qualified health professionals in protecting patient privacy.
To investigate nursing students' practices of patient privacy protection and to identify factors associated with their practices.
A cross-sectional study design was adopted. A two-part survey was used to collect two types of data on nursing students: (1) personal characteristics, including demographics, clinical experience and use of information and communication technology and social media and (2) practice of patient privacy protection, collected using the Patient Privacy Scale.
A total of 319 nursing students aged 18 or above, studying pre-registration nursing programmes and who had attended at least one block of clinical placement, were recruited from a university in Hong Kong.
The study received ethical approval from the Survey and Behavioural Research Ethics Committee of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The participants were informed of the study aim and written consent was obtained before completing the survey.
The mean total score on the Patient Privacy Scale was 119.7 out of 135. Nursing students who were regular users of Instagram and those who had never taken photographs with patients and hence did not need to obtain patient consent were associated with better practices of patient privacy protection (higher total scores on the Patient Privacy Scale).
The findings improve our understanding of nursing students' practice of patient privacy protection and the associated factors. This will inform the development and revision of current strategies to enhance nursing students' practice of patient privacy protection, especially their use of social media.
在医疗保健服务中，保护个人的隐私权和保密性至关重要。作为未来的医疗保健专业人员，护理学生应承担与合格医疗保健专业人员相同的保护患者隐私的责任。
调查护理学生保护患者隐私的实践情况，并确定与其实践相关的因素。
采用横断面研究设计。使用两部分调查来收集两类与护理学生相关的数据：（1）个人特征，包括人口统计学、临床经验以及信息和通信技术以及社交媒体的使用情况；（2）使用患者隐私量表收集的患者隐私保护实践情况。
共招募了来自香港一所大学的 319 名年龄在 18 岁及以上、正在攻读注册前护理课程且至少参加过一次临床实习的护理学生。
该研究获得了香港中文大学调查和行为研究伦理委员会的伦理批准。在完成调查之前，向参与者介绍了研究目的并获得了书面同意。
患者隐私量表的总平均得分为 135 分中的 119.7 分。经常使用 Instagram 的护理学生和从未与患者合影且因此无需获得患者同意的护理学生与更好的患者隐私保护实践相关（患者隐私量表的总得分较高）。
这些发现增进了我们对护理学生保护患者隐私实践及其相关因素的理解。这将为制定和修订当前策略提供信息，以增强护理学生保护患者隐私的实践，特别是他们对社交媒体的使用。
