SEXUALLY TRANSMITED DISEASES: TO PRESERVE THE HUSBAND’S CONFIDENTIALITY OR TO PROTECT WOMAN’S HEALTH?

Authors

  • Janina Pontes Pisani
  • Elma Lourdes Campos Pavone Zoboli

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/ce.v14i3.16175

Keywords:

Bioética, Privacidade, Comunicação sigilosa, Ética profissional, Doenças sexualmente transmissíveis, Bioethics, Privacy, Confidentiality, Ethics, professional, Sexually transmitted diseases

Abstract

To maintain the privacy and confidentiality of patients is a critical issue for ethics. We developed an exploratory,
quantitative and qualitative study with potential users of the Unique Health System to identify how they expect that health
personnel would behave when one of the heterosexual partner has syphilis. Subjects were employees of a public University.
Data collection was developed through an anonymous and self reported questionnaire, with questions about how the health
professional should behave when a husband with syphilis doesn’t want his wife to know about the disease and ask the health
team to get her examined without knowing about his problem. As results, interviewees expect the maintenance of confidentiality,
leaving the husband in charge of telling his wife the truth. Health professionals are seen as a mediator of the situation, of
whom they expect orientation and support in the revelation of health problems. To know what the patients expect from health
professionals could help nurses to deal with ethical situations that might be a problem among the issues of sexual health.

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Pisani, J. P., & Zoboli, E. L. C. P. (2009). SEXUALLY TRANSMITED DISEASES: TO PRESERVE THE HUSBAND’S CONFIDENTIALITY OR TO PROTECT WOMAN’S HEALTH?. Cogitare Enfermagem, 14(3). https://doi.org/10.5380/ce.v14i3.16175

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 3 (2009)

Section

Research

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