Abstract:
To survey the attitudes toward patients' rights and associated factors of physicians and nurses in Somdet Chaopraya Institute of Psychiatry. The research subjects included 194 physicians and nurses work at Somdet Chaopraya Institute of Psychiatry. The instruments were three sets of self rating questionnaires dealing with general data and associated factors, The Maudsley Personality Inventory (MPI) and attitudes toward patients' rights. Data analysis was performed by percentage, means, standard deviations, Chi-square test and Pearson's product moment correlation coefficient. Major findings were the following : 1.Attitudes toward patients' rights of physicians and nurses were at moderate level (55.1%).2.Personal factors that had statistically significant relationship with attitudes toward patients' rights were profession and psychiatric illness. These physicians and nurses who were psychiatrists and professional nurses had attitudes in high level more than other groups. Not having psychiatrics illness group had better attitudes than those of physicians and nurses who have psychiatric illness at .05 level. 3.Associated factors that had statistically significant relationship with attitudes toward patients' rights were education and scale-N personality. These physicians and nurses who have higher education and stability personality had better attitudes more than those of physicians and nurses who have lower education and neuroticism personality at .01.