The Relationship between Fulfilling Privacy Needs and Service Satisfaction in Adolescents with Chronic Illness Conditions in the Inpatient Room

Abstract

Privacy needs for adolescents with chronic disease conditions are important, including secure information, psychological information, and social privacy. Violations against privacy will bring discomfort, stress, and dissatisfaction. Patients' satisfaction is one of the most important indicators that show the quality of ward services that include the dimensions of tangibility, reliability, responsiveness, assurance, and empathy. This study was conducted to analyze the relationship between the fulfillment of privacy needs and service satisfaction in adolescents with hospitalized chronic conditions. This correlational study was conducted using a cross-sectional approach. Samples were 72 adolescents aged 12-21 years with chronic disease conditions were selected using the consecutive sampling method. Data of this study were collected using questionnaires. Bivariate data analysis was performed using chi-square analysis. The results showed that the most unfulfilled need for privacy security was information privacy (70.8%), followed by psychological privacy (63.9%), physical privacy (58.3%), and the least unfulfilled one was social privacy (51.4%). Respondents were most dissatisfied with the dimension of empathy (87.5%), followed by assurance (84.7%), reliability (83.3%), tangibility (80.6%), and responsiveness (76.4%). This study also confirmed a meaningful relationship between service satisfaction with information privacy (p-value <0.001) and physical privacy (p-value 0.021 <0.05). Whereas service satisfaction is associated with neither psychological privacy nor social privacy. The role of nurses is very important in carrying out patient-centered care, especially in meeting the privacy needs to achieve service satisfaction for adolescents with chronic disease conditions.