ASSESSMENT OF PATIENT’S KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THEIR HEALTH RIGHTS AT KING FAHAD HOSPITAL AT AL-MADINAHCITY,KSA, 2016

Background : Patients bills of rights in Saudi Arabia developed in 2006. Many studies were assessing the knowledge of patient bill of rights in Saudi Arabia most of them found a lack of knowledge , in addition, there is no similar study was done in Al-Madinah city. Objectives: The aims of this study are to assess patient’s knowledge about the bill of rights and to determine factors affecting that among patients attending KFH in Al-Madinah city,KSA, 2016. Method: This cross-sectional survey was approved by IRB at general director affairs committee Al-Madinah conducted on patients attending king Fahad Hospital in Al-Madinah , KSA, during March-April 2016. 385 patients , 18 years or older, Saudi and non-Saudi , male and female were selected randomly and requested to complete the questionnaire that was prepared by the authors and the validity done by a review of three consultants then the SPSS was used to analyze the data collected. Result: We note that 73.8% of the respondents not aware about “patients bills of rights”. Although that the patients have a good knowledge about all the contents of patients bills of rights. We found a relation between the awareness of patients\' bills of rights and age ,educational and income level. The most known right was getting the required care. On the other hand, the least known right was “patients’ knowledge of their families rights and responsibilities”. Conclusion :Patients have poor aware of “PBR” that issued by the Saudi Ministry of Health . However, the most of them showed great knowledge about their rights. The Patients aware about “PBR” affected by many factors such as; educational Level, age, and income Level. But it didn’t affect by gender.