the effect of teaching patients' rights to midwifery students on their compliance with patients' rights at fatemieh hospital, hamadan, iran

Background: medical ethics has emphasized the necessity of respecting patients’ rights. objectives: this study aimed to determine the effect of teaching patients’ rights to midwifery students on their compliance with patients’ rights in fatemieh maternity hospital in hamadan. methods: this quasi-experimental study was performed on all of the midwifery students in the last academic year in 2018. also, a sample population of 300 pregnant women who were hospitalized for normal vaginal delivery (150 cases in the control group and 150 in the intervention group) was included. a researcher-made checklist was used for assessing compliance with patients’ rights, which was completed for midwifery students before and after training. also, pregnant women's satisfaction was assessed using a questionnaire. a workshop in two days was implemented for the midwifery students group about the patients' rights charter. data were analyzed with spss 16 software. results: there was no significant difference between the two groups of pregnant women in terms of education, age, gravida, and para (p gt; 0.05). the mean score of the adequate services had a significant difference between the before and after training (p<0.01). the other dimension of patients’ rights was not statistically significant (p gt; 0.05). there was a significant difference in pregnant women’s satisfaction in psychological domain (p<0.05). conclusions: the patients’ rights charter workshop for midwifery students is recommended to improve awareness of them and patient satisfaction.