[Opinion of medical and nursing students on the autonomy of adolescents in health care services]. / Opinión de los estudiantes de medicina y enfermería sobre la autonomía de los adolescentes en los servicios de salud.
Rev Panam Salud Publica
; 4(6): 388-92, 1998 Dec.
Article
em Es
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-9924515
In an effort to better understand some of the ethical and legal dilemmas that health professionals face in their daily activities, this study identified and analyzed the opinions and expectations of medical and nursing students at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, regarding the autonomy of adolescents in receiving health care services. Over the 1995-1996 period, interviews were done with students in the first and last years of their programs in the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing of the University of São Paulo. The results from the first-year students were compared with those of the final-year students. The interview questions dealt with such issues as providing medical care to adolescents when a parent or guardian was not present, adolescents making their own decisions on health care services, the confidentiality of information that adolescents provide, the circumstances in which that information could be given to parents or guardians, and situations where there were conflicts between the decisions of parents and adolescents. Despite variations among the opinions and expectations of the students, the overall results suggest that most of the medical and nursing students do not accept the concept of "health adulthood" or autonomy for adolescents and that the students instead choose to rely on current legal definitions of adulthood.
Buscar no Google
Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Estudantes de Medicina
/
Estudantes de Enfermagem
/
Serviços de Saúde do Adolescente
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Aspecto:
Ethics
Limite:
Adolescent
/
Female
/
Humans
/
Male
País/Região como assunto:
America do sul
/
Bolivia
Idioma:
Es
Revista:
Rev Panam Salud Publica
Assunto da revista:
SAUDE PUBLICA
Ano de publicação:
1998
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Brasil
País de publicação:
Estados Unidos