Ethical problems in primary care: the perspectives of ethicists and professionals
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https://doi.org/10.26512/rbb.v3i1.7903Keywords:
Bioethics. Family health. Primary Healthcare. Humanization of assistance. Ethics.Abstract
This is a quantitative, exploratory research focused on bioethics and primary care. The objectives of its initial phase were to identify ethical problems experienced by nurses and doctors working within the Family Health Program and observe the frequency of their occurrence. In the second phase, the objective was to build a “golden pattern” based on the opinion of ethicists and bioethicists and to compare this pattern with the results from the first phase. A self-applied questionnaire was used to collect data, based on ethical problems mentioned by doctors and nurses regarding relations between patients and their families and multiprofessional teams and with the health system on previous research by one of the authors. The panel included bioethic specialists professionally trained, such as nurses, medical doctors, philosophers, theolo- gians and dentists. Considering the problems as a whole, professionals and ethicists agreed only in 67.5% of the situations. The results of Kappa Indices confirmed the discordance between them.
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