Anchoring Vignettes for Respect/Privacy
Questions:
Overall, how would you rate [name of person/you] experience of being greeted
and talked to respectfully and having [his] physical privacy respected ?
Response categories:
- Very good
- Good
- Moderate
- Bad
- Very bad
Vignettes:
- [Conrad] is suffering from a disease. Feeling very weak one day he goes
to a clinic. When he enters the doctor's waiting room, a nurse greets him
and offers him chair. He is also offered something to drink. He is seen by
a doctor, who gives [Conrad] a physical examination behind a small curtain
so that no one sees him undress.
- [Prem] went to hospital for a week. He had a broken leg and some scratches.
He shared a ward with 5 other people. On a usual day, a nurse wakes him in
the morning , saying hello and asking how he is. When the nurses change his
bandages they draw curtains around the bed so noone can see him.
- [Sen] is brought to the hospital, because of sharp stomach pain. Several
people attend to her. First someone asks for her name, place of work etc..
Then a nurse comes in to examine her, asking her about her pain. She is examined
while lying on a bed. Her examination area is not totally private as there
are holes in the curtains. A few steps away, she sees someone lying on another
bed.
- [Sally] has cancer. She visits a clinic regularly for treatment. The clinic
has a waiting room, beyond which are changing and treatment rooms. On arrival,
the clinic staff usually greet her and ask her if she would take a seat. She
then is asked to undress in the changing room. She changes into a short gown
and is led along a short private corridor to the treatment area.
- [Anya] took her three-month old baby for her first vaccination. She waited
with the other mothers before being seen by a nurse who said hello but did
not introduce herself or ask [Anya] her name or the name of her baby.
- [Joseph] has a recurring skin problem that is being treated. The doctor
he uses sees patients in one room. The doctor sits at a small table at the
end of a long room. The last time [Joseph] visited the doctor, the doctor
greeted him quickly and then wrote out a prescription for medicine.
- [John] goes to the doctor because he has a sharp pain in his legs. The doctor
is very busy. When he enters the doctor's office the doctor asks [John] what
he can do for him. After listening briefly to [John's] description of his
pains but without examination, the doctor says that it is a muscular problem.
The doctor then writes him a prescription and calls "next".
- [Kim] is the mother of a 6 month old child. [Kim] took her child to the
clinic. She didn't know how the clinic worked so she spoke to the first person
she saw in nurse uniform. The person told her to go to another room where
they see children. When she got there, no one asked her what she wanted, so
she spoke to another nurse who told her: "go sit there and wait, we will
call you". After a few minutes, the nurse pointed to her and said "come".
Without looking at her or the child, the nurse made some notes, and kept on
talking to a colleague about something that had happened to a friend of theirs.
- [Patricia] uses a nearby clinic regularly. She often has headaches. The
nurses there seldom greet her. At her last visit, the nurse said to [Patricia]
that she didn't need to come so often; there were sicker people that needed
the clinic's attention.
- [Patrick] feels pains in his chest and is short of breath. He believes he
is having a heart attack. A friend takes him to the closest doctor. On arrival,
the doctor asks Patrick to go to a separate consultation area where he meets
him and examines Patrick, asking him how he is feeling. After a short examination
the doctor smiles, saying there is nothing wrong with Patrick's heart - he
must have been imagining things.