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.
Quenaya Garay, A. S. ., Peñaloza De La Torre, U. M. ., Salazar Paco, O. E. ., Aldana Cáceres, A. ., & Pezo Jiménez, O. . (2024). The use of informed consent in dental practice in southern Peru. Acta Bioethica, 30(2), 293–302. Retrieved from https://revistateatro.uchile.cl/index.php/AB/article/view/76161
