ผู้วิจัย/Authors: Potchana Wipamat

ชื่อเรื่อง/Title: Nurse Ethical Dilemmas and Ethical Decision Making in Telling the Truth about Illness to HIV/AIDS patients Page

แหล่งที่มา/Source: The Thai Journal of Nursing Council , Vol. 17, No. 4, October-December 2002, Page 47-64.

รายละเอียด / Details:

This descriptive research aimed to study nurse' ethical dilemmas and ethical decision making in telling the truth about illness to HIV/AIDS patients. One hundred and ten registered nurses who worked in hospitals, Songkla, Thailand were recruited by simple random sampling. Instruments consisted of (1) the Demographic data from and (2) a vignette : How to tell the truth to HIV/AIDS patient followed but close-ended and open-ended questions about frequency, feelings ethical dilemmas and ethical decision making when encountering the ethical dilemmas from the vignette, Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics using SPSS/FW and content analysis. The findings revealed that most subjects 55.45% rarely encountered dilemmas from the vignette. Mean score of negative feelings was 6.99 0-10 numeric scale. Three ethical dilemmas were identified including: (1) Telling the truth or telling nothing 42.73%, (2) Willing to tell the truth but beyond the duty 29.09%, and (3) physician-centered 27.27% The findings from this study can be used as base line date in developing nurses' ethical decision making skills when encountering ethical dilemmas related to truth telling to HIV/AIDS patients.

Keywords: ethical dilemmas, ethical decision making, HIV patients AIDS patients, nurses, telling the truth, psychiatric nursing care

ปีที่เผยแพร่/Year: 2002

Address: พยาบาลวิชาชีพ โรงพยาบาลวชิระภูเก็ต

Code: 460000198

ISSN/ISBN: 1513-1262

Country of publication: Thailand.

Language: English.

Category: Abstract Journal.

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