Evaluation of the quality of informed consent in patients referring to infertility centers of Rasht in ۲۰۱۹

Introduction: Infertility refers to couples' inability to get pregnant after at least one year of intercourse without the use of contraceptives. Getting an informed consent as one of the principles of patients’ rights, is a process that she decides on therapeutic intervention after receiving adequate information from the therapist team. The lack of understanding and compliance with this process today has involved many physicians and other medical staff and hospital practitioners in the legal and regulatory authorities .Purpose: The aim of this study was to explain the quality of the informed consent process of patients Referred to infertility treatment centers in Rasht ۱۳۹۸.Materials and Methods: This study is a cross- sectional and analytical study on ۱۷۲ patients referred to Alzahra infertility center in Rasht in the first half of year ۱۳۹۸. Patients information were collected from a questionnaire. Then data were analyzed by SPSS. Mean and standard deviation indices with ۹۵% confidence interval were used to describe the data and Shapiro- Wilk test and Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient were used for data analysis .Result: The mean score of "providing information to the patient" with a mean of ۷.۲۳ in intermediate condition, the mean score of "understandable consent form" with ۳.۵۱ out of ۴ in excellent condition and the mean score of "communicating with the physician" with an average of ۹.۸۱ were good but the "voluntary consent form" with a score of ۰.۶ out of ۸ showed this dimension to be weak. Overall, the quality of consent of patients referred to infertility centers in Rasht with average score of ۲۱.۱۶ was estimated. Only weak significant relationship was found between the level of educators' satisfaction with the quality of informed consent .

کلیدواژه ها:

Infertility ، Informed consent ، Quality ، Get pregnant