Abstract:

It is necessary to ensure a confidence environment in the patient’s relationship. Patients who are unable to catch the environment of confidence with doctors, without cooperating with the doctor, can leave their treatment practices in the middle and take steps towards changing the doctor. The study is aimed at examining the patient's relationship of confidence factor. The universe of the research is made up of individuals aged 18 and older who live in Isparta and have benefited of health care at least once. The research was conducted by 460 people. The survey was handed over to the participants who were treated and seen in the State Hospital, Research and Application Hospital of the Suleyman Demirel University (SDU) located in the Isparta Provincial Center, and 3 private hospitals in August 2015. According to the research findings, the factors affecting the perceptions of patient’s doctor’s confidence were identified as “the doctor’s confidence”, “the doctor’s uncertainty”, “the participation in treatment decisions”, “the doctor’s discriminatory attitude”. As well as the reasons why patients prefer the hospital they have gone, the first place is the satisfaction that they have received in that hospital before and the elements of confidence that they have heard to the doctor.

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