IMPLEMENTATION PATTERNS IN THE ACTION OF SUCCESS FACILITIES THE OPTIMIZATION OF COMMUNITY LAW AWARENESS AGAINST THE INFORMED CONSENT (Case Study: The Central Hospital of Dr. M. Djamil, Padang)

Abstract

ABSTRACT
The Article 2 Section (1) of The Minister of Health Regulation No. 290 of 2008 about the medical act approval
which declares that every medical act has to attain an approval (informed consent). In the reality, occasionally
the act done by the doctor to the patient in several cases often inflict harm or disadvantage for the patient, either
the mistake in the implementation or in giving information to the patient regarding the disease diagnosis and the
way of treatment. The researched problems were 1) how was the level of community law awareness toward the
informed consent in the central hospital of Dr. M. Djamil Padang? 2) How was the effort of level optimization
of the community law awareness toward the informed consent in the central hospital of Dr. M. Djamil Padang?
The research used the sociological juridical approach. The data used consisted of primary and secondary data.
The data was collected by doing an interview, questionnaire and document study. The data was analyzed
qualitatively. Based on the research, it was concluded that 1) the levels of community law awareness toward the
informed consent in the central hospital of Dr. M. Djamil Padang are 70 % for the general knowledge, 78% for
the law understanding, 60% for legal attitude, and 59% for legal behaviour, 2) the efforts conducted to increase
the levels of community law awareness against the informed consent in the central hospital of Dr. M. Djamil
Padang were by putting up posters about patient’s rights and obligations in every hospital’s corner, also by
conducting a training for several times about the patient and family’s rights.