Bostan, Sedat; Çolakc, Tuğba

AABBSS TTRRAACCTT The aim of this study is to assess the attitudes, thoughts and views of media workers in relation to the patient rights implementations that have been practiced since 2014 in hospitals in Turkey. As the patient rights is a relatively emerging and social concept in Turkey, it is covered in various ways by the news media. As the coverage ways have important influence over the for- mation of social perception, individual attitudes of media workers gain importance. Thus we made a survey on media workers in Trabzon city center with the aim to assess their personal views and attitudes. The obtained data has been analyzed by SPSS and yielded findings suggesting that although media workers were seeing patient rights as a rising value, they needed sufficient information on the topic. It was also found that a difference appeared between the attitudes of those media workers who had read or written about patient rights and those who hadn't. It is awaited that a positive coverage could support patient rights practices to get more influential in the health care process which in turn would foster more convenient conditions for patients and patients' relatives for appealing to patient communication units. Efforts for informing media workers would be influential on a media cover- age that could foster a peaceful relationship between health care workers and patients.