How patients experience respect in healthcare: findings from a qualitative study among multicultural women living with HIV.

Autor: Fernandez SB; School of Social Work, Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th St, Miami, FL, 33199, USA. sofernan@fiu.edu.; Research Center in Minority Institutions, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th St, Miami, FL, 33199, USA. sofernan@fiu.edu., Ahmad A; Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 2024 East Monument Street, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA., Beach MC; Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 2024 East Monument Street, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA., Ward MK; Research Center in Minority Institutions, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th St, Miami, FL, 33199, USA.; Department of Epidemiology, Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th St, Miami, FL, 33199, USA., Jean-Gilles M; Department of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th St, Miami, FL, 33199, USA., Ibañez G; Department of Epidemiology, Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th St, Miami, FL, 33199, USA., Ladner R; Behavioral Science Research Corporation, 2121 Ponce de Leon Boulevard, Coral Gables, FL, 33134, USA., Trepka MJ; Research Center in Minority Institutions, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th St, Miami, FL, 33199, USA.; Department of Epidemiology, Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th St, Miami, FL, 33199, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: BMC medical ethics [BMC Med Ethics] 2024 Mar 27; Vol. 25 (1), pp. 39. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Mar 27.
DOI: 10.1186/s12910-024-01015-1
Abstrakt: Background: Respect is essential to providing high quality healthcare, particularly for groups that are historically marginalized and stigmatized. While ethical principles taught to health professionals focus on patient autonomy as the object of respect for persons, limited studies explore patients' views of respect. The purpose of this study was to explore the perspectives of a multiculturally diverse group of low-income women living with HIV (WLH) regarding their experience of respect from their medical physicians.
Methods: We analyzed 57 semi-structured interviews conducted at HIV case management sites in South Florida as part of a larger qualitative study that explored practices facilitating retention and adherence in care. Women were eligible to participate if they identified as African American (n = 28), Hispanic/Latina (n = 22), or Haitian (n = 7). They were asked to describe instances when they were treated with respect by their medical physicians. Interviews were conducted by a fluent research interviewer in either English, Spanish, or Haitian Creole, depending on participant's language preference. Transcripts were translated, back-translated and reviewed in entirety for any statements or comments about "respect." After independent coding by 3 investigators, we used a consensual thematic analysis approach to determine themes.
Results: Results from this study grouped into two overarching classifications: respect manifested in physicians' orientation towards the patient (i.e., interpersonal behaviors in interactions) and respect in medical professionalism (i.e., clinic procedures and practices). Four main themes emerged regarding respect in provider's orientation towards the patient: being treated as a person, treated as an equal, treated without blame or prejudice, and treated with concern/emotional support. Two main themes emerged regarding respect as evidenced in medical professionalism: physician availability and considerations of privacy.
Conclusions: Findings suggest a more robust conception of what 'respect for persons' entails in medical ethics for a diverse group of low-income women living with HIV. Findings have implications for broadening areas of focus of future bioethics education, training, and research to include components of interpersonal relationship development, communication, and clinic procedures. We suggest these areas of training may increase respectful medical care experiences and potentially serve to influence persistent and known social and structural determinants of health through provider interactions and health care delivery.
(© 2024. The Author(s).)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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