Gynaecological Examination Gown and Patient Satisfaction

Developing Gynecological Examination Dress and Determining Its Effect on Perception of Privacy and Satisfaction: Randomized Controlled Trial

The attitude of the health personnel before, during and after the examination and the positive examination experience of the person have a significant impact on ensuring the continuity of the subsequent examination and increasing the quality of the service provided. The use of different clothes in the patient during the examination will ensure that the patient's physical privacy is ensured from the moment of application, during diagnosis and treatment, and that the examination experience will be positively affected by preventing the use of additional covers to protect the privacy of all patients during examination and intervention. This will contribute to the maintenance of health by eliminating the intense stress and embarrassment experienced by patients during the examination and ensuring that they regularly attend health checks. In addition, meeting the privacy expectations of the patients will ensure that they are satisfied with the health service they receive, thus increasing the quality of the health service provided.

The attitude of the health personnel before, during and after the examination and the positive examination experience of the person have an important effect on ensuring the continuity of the subsequent examination and increasing the quality of the service provided. With the examination suit, it will be ensured that the patient's bodily privacy is ensured from the moment of application, during diagnosis, treatment and care, the use of the same cover to protect the privacy of all patients during examination and intervention will be prevented to prevent infection transmission and the examination experience will be positively affected. Thus, the intense stress and embarrassment experienced by patients during the examination will be eliminated and will contribute to the maintenance of health through regular visits to health checks. In addition, meeting the privacy expectations of patients will ensure that they are satisfied with the health service they receive, thus increasing the quality of the health service provided. In order to ensure patient privacy, to protect and improve women's health and to provide convenience in gynecological examination, the gynecological examination garment to be used in the examination can be designed as disposable, perineum and thigh open for the examination to be performed. In order to protect privacy, extra parts can be used to ensure that the open parts remain closed outside the examination process. Properties of the fabric used in the examination garment;

• Grama: 32,07 g/m^2
• Explosion.: 135,77 kpç
• Detachment: Ȼ: 115NȺ: 120 N
• Air permeability: 1750
• Type of material: Polypropylene

The study was carried out as a post-test control group design from randomised controlled studies. The intervention group of the study was dressed in gynaecological examination clothes, while the control group used the drape given to the patient during the examination, which is a routine practice in the health institution where the study was conducted.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Gynecology; Gynecology/Obstetrics Conditions
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: putting on an examination gown

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 150
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Turkey
  • Konak
    • İzmir, Konak, Turkey
      • EGE

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Women who will undergo gynaecological examination
• Women who volunteered to participate in the study
• no physical disabilities

Exclusion Criteria:

• Women who will not undergo a gynaecological examination

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Intervention / Treatment

Experimental: Developing Gynecological Examination Dress; Gown will be put on the patient before gynaecological examination and their satisfaction will be evaluated

Other: putting on an examination gown; During the gynecological examination, the patient in the experimental group will be made to wear an examination gown, while the patient in the control group will use the routine practice of the hospital. In this way, with the gynecological examination clothing to be developed, the body privacy of the patients will be protected during the examination. In addition, women will feel less anxiety during gynecological examination and important steps will be taken in maintaining women's health by ensuring regular gynecological examination.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Gynaecological examination gown	In this study, women's satisfaction with the clothing developed will be evaluated with the Body Privacy in Gynecology and Obstetrics Scale. The scale is a five-point Likert-type scale with thirty-seven items consisting of "General Privacy", "Rights and Privacy", "Ethics and Privacy" and "Clinical Privacy" sub-dimensions. All of the statements in the dimensions are positive and the answers given to each item were summed by scoring between 1-5 and then the mean values were calculated for each item. It is understood that the higher the mean scores obtained from the scale, the more sensitive the participants are about privacy in the relevant area. The General Rights and Privacy Dimension of the scale consists of statements between items 1-9. Rights and privacy dimension consists of statements between items 10-14. Ethical rights and privacy dimension consists of statements between items 15-19. Clinical and privacy dimension consists of statements between items 20-37.	1 year

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: ayşegül muslu

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): February 1, 2022
• Primary Completion (Actual): April 30, 2022
• Study Completion (Actual): June 22, 2022

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: February 8, 2024
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 15, 2024
• First Posted (Actual): March 21, 2024

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): March 21, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 15, 2024
• Last Verified: March 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: Ethics number E.405221

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No