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Ethnographic analysis of communication and the deaf community's rights in the clinical context
Dolors Rodríguez-Martín1,2,3,4, Catalina Rodríguez-García1,5, Anna Falcó-Pegueroles1,6
1a Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, School of Nursing , University of Barcelona , Barcelona , Spain.
Background:
Communication is a key factor in the health system. In the case of Deaf Community healthcare interactions could be affected by communication and it can also have a negative impact on health and jeopardise some of their health rights.
Objectives:
Aims (i) know the communication access difficulties of deaf people in healthcare context (ii) determine how these difficulties violate their rights.
Methods:
Ethnographical study.
Results:
Subjects were 25 deaf adults (7 men; 18 women). Two themes were identified (1) barriers to information access - right to information; (2) communication barriers - right to privacy and to decide.
Conclusions:
Communication difficulties and access to information have an impact on the health of deaf people, and violate health rights. In addition, their language rights like a community are also violate. Impact statement: Research could have a positive impact on improvement to access, communication and safe in the Deaf Community, in a clinical context.