The use of informed consent in dental practice in southern Peru; [O uso do consentimento informado na prática odontológica no sul do Peru]

Garay A.S.Q.; de La Torre U.M.P.; Paco O.E.S.; Cáceres A.A.; Jiménez O.P. · Acta Bioethica (2024) · DOI: 10.4067/s1726-569x2024000200293

Resumen

The objective of this research is to determine how informed consent is used in dental practice in southern Peru in the year 2023. The methodological design adopts a descriptive level with a mixed approach that is divided into two stages: The first consisted of a qualitative theoretical-analytical-rational analysis, followed by a subsequent empirical analysis with a quantitative, descriptive and cross-sectional approach. The study was carried out in a population of dentists who practice the dental profession in southern Peru in the year 2023 with a non-probabilistic convenience sample of 131 dentists. The main results were that the use of informed consent (14.5%) states that they do not use it in their daily consultation and (59.5%) use it in an erroneous way, due to different factors that influence this procedure and that the non-use of informed consent in its highest percentage arguing “lack of time” on the part of dentists It was concluded that there is a high rate of dental professionals who do not use informed consent in their professional practice, even more so that there is a high percentage that does not use consent correctly reported as an ethical-legal document.

Instituciones: Universidad Privada de Tacna; Universidad Nacional Jorge Basadre Grohmann