Effect of Comic-Based Education on Attitudes Toward Patient Rights

Effect of Comic-Based Education on Attitudes Toward Patient Rights: A Randomized Controlled Trial

The goal of this randomized controlled trial is to evaluate whether comic-based education improves attitudes toward the use of patient rights among adults receiving inpatient care. The main question is whether patients who receive comic-based patient rights education have more positive attitudes toward using their patient rights than patients who receive routine verbal and written patient rights education.

Participants will be randomly assigned to one of two groups. The intervention group will receive an approximately 15-minute, individual, face-to-face patient rights education session using a comic-based educational brochure. The control group will receive the hospital's routine patient rights education, consisting of verbal and written information provided by clinical nurses for approximately 15 minutes. Attitudes toward the use of patient rights will be measured before and immediately after the education in both groups.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Aged 18 years or older.
• Hospitalized in an internal medicine or surgical clinic.
• Able to read and write in Turkish.
• No diagnosed psychiatric disorder.
• No visual, hearing, speech, or communication impairment that would prevent reading and understanding the educational material or completing the study questionnaires.
• Willing to participate in the study and provide written informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Requiring emergency medical intervention.
• Being hemodynamically unstable.
• Being in a critical clinical condition.
• Having a clinical condition that, in the judgment of the clinical team, makes participation in the educational intervention or data collection inappropriate.