The Relationship Between Pregnant Women Using the Internet to Make Decisions and Their Attitudes Toward Using Patient Rights: A Descriptive and Cross-Sectional Study

İngilizce (OpenAlex)

This study examined the relationship between pregnant women using the internet to make decisions and their attitudes toward using patient rights. This study was conducted using a descriptive and cross-sectional study. The population of the study consisted of pregnant women who applied to the Maternity and Children's Hospital in a province in the Black Sea region between August 2023 and November 2023. The study included 508 pregnant women and the data were collected face-to-face using the ''sociodemographic information form'', ''Decision Making via the Internet in Pregnancy Scale (DMIPS)'', and ''Patient Rights Utilization Attitude Scale (PRUAS)'' by simple random sampling method. The mean total DMIPS score of the pregnant women was 28.65±8.69, and the mean total score of the PRUAS was 52.36±12.19. A statistically significant and negative correlation was found between the mean scores of the pregnant women on the DMIPS and its sub-dimensions and the mean scores of the PRUAS and its subdimensions (p<0.05). As a result of the simple linear regression analysis conducted to determine the effect of pregnant women's decision-making through the internet on their attitude towards the use of patients' rights, it is seen that decision-making through the Internet has a significant negative effect on the attitude towards the use of patients' rights (R2 =0.016; p=0.004). Pregnant women's use of the internet to make decisions affects their attitudes toward the use of patient rights. This result shows that pregnant women use the internet to make decisions about patient rights.