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Customized patient clothing and patient satisfaction

Khorshid Vaskooi-Eshkevari (Nursing Affair Directorship, Vice Chancellorship for Clinical Administration, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran)
Fatemeh Mirbazegh (Nursing Affair Directorship, Vice Chancellorship for Clinical Administration, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran)
Mojtaba Soltani-Kermanshahi (Social Determinants of Health Research Center, School of Medicine, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran)
Mahin Sabzali-Poursarab-Saeedi (Hospital Nursing Management Office, Dr Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran)
Sadaf Alipour (Breast Disease Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran) (Arash Women’s Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran)

International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance

ISSN: 0952-6862

Article publication date: 15 April 2019

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Abstract

Purpose

To respect the patients’ physical privacy, they should be provided with proper clothing that prevents the exposure of unnecessary parts of the body. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate patient satisfaction upon wearing customized, high-coverage, procedure-specific dresses.

Design/methodology/approach

New designs of clothing adapted for different kinds of procedures, and offering a good coverage of the body and easy access to the required parts were compared with regular patient clothing. Patients from six different wards of a university hospital filled out a questionnaire inquiring about general and demographic variables, and patient satisfaction was evaluated based on six main features of the clothing design. p<0.005 was considered as the level of statistical significance.

Findings

Overall, 256 patients were entered into the regular-design and new-design groups (n=128 in each). In Group 1 (regular design), the rate of dissatisfaction was about 98, 84, 84, 78, 77 and 38 percent for ease of wearing, comfort, design, material, coverage level and size, respectively. In Group 2 (new design), the highest satisfaction rates were associated with ease of wearing, size, coverage level, material, design and comfort as 93.7, 91.4, 89.9, 87.1, 86, and 80.5 percent, respectively.

Originality/value

The present study is the first to investigate customized patient clothing and demonstrated that these clothes can improve the patients’ satisfaction in terms of coverage, comfort, design and size.

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Acknowledgements

This paper was extracted from a research project approved by the Deputy of Treatment of Tehran University of Medical Sciences (30631-113-04-94, February 16, 2016). There was no external research funding. The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest. The authors would like to express their gratitude to Dr Ali Jafarian, Head of Tehran University of Medical Sciences at the time of the study, for his full support, as well as Dr Mohammadreza Soroosh and Dr Hadi Mokhtare, Head of the Hospital and the Hospital Director, respectively, at that time, for their sincere cooperation in the program.

Citation

Vaskooi-Eshkevari, K., Mirbazegh, F., Soltani-Kermanshahi, M., Sabzali-Poursarab-Saeedi, M. and Alipour, S. (2019), "Customized patient clothing and patient satisfaction", International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 32 No. 3, pp. 635-644. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJHCQA-02-2018-0047

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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