Abstract

Background: patients have certain rights. The patient retains the right to be free from any physical harm, privacy and freedom of movement.Objective: - to determine the knowledge and practice of doctors about patients’ rights sample was taken from Baghdad- hospitals, 2021.Method: A cross-sectional study with analytic element was carried out from January 1st – June 30th, from doctors working in Medical-City-ospital, al-Imamain al-Kadhimain-city hospital, in Baghdad city; through a structured questionnaire by the researcher after the review of many kinds of literature, researches, and previous studies. The inclusions criteria included any doctors working in the above hospitals, and accepted to enroll in the study. The exclusion criteria exclude all Doctors who didn’t answer the questionnaire.Two-hundred doctors answered the questionnaire, analyzed of frequencies and percentage calculated. Chi square test were used. The statistical probability considers significant if (p value <0.05).Results: Two hundred doctors enrolled in this study, the highest percentage 154(77.0%) aged between 30-39 yr., female 158(79.0%), married 106(53.0%), permanent 180(90.0%), medical specially 113(56.5%), more than half of participants had 6-10 post-graduation year, most of them 154(77.0%) working-time in both day and night, the questions of knowledge were 25 and the questions of practice were 17, overall knowledge about patients’ rights was 179(90%), and overall practice about patients’ rights was 166(83%)Conclusion: the doctors’ knowledge and practice about patients'-rights was good. Age, sex, marital-status, workplace, the specialty & degree, experience-years and work-time had no statistically significance with doctors’-knowledge