Education and Ethics In Nursing

Explaining the cultural challenges of students as the missing part of education in Jahrom University of Medical Sciences: a qualitative content analysis

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Nursing, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences. Motahari Street, Jahrom, Fars, Iran

2 Mcs of Nursing, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

Abstract

Introduction:
University is one of the most important environments for transferring values ​​to the young generation. It is important to pay attention to all student challenges affecting education; therefore, it is necessary to pay more attention to cultural activities in the university along with education and research; As if the present study was conducted in Jahrom University of Medical Sciences with the aim of explaining the cultural challenges of students.
Methods & Materials:
this qualitative study, 10 individual interviews and one group interview (12 people) with undergraduate and medical students, who were among the cultural activists of the University of Medical Sciences and had at least 2 years of experience at the university, were conducted in Jahrom University of Medical Sciences using the contractual content analysis approach. ; It was done by purposeful sampling. Data were collected through semi-structured in-depth interviews. The interviews were analyzed using the Granheim and Lundman method and with the help of MAXQDA 10 software.
Results:
72.72% of participants were women, whose average age was (24.17±1.18) and their cultural activity was (3.15±0.67) years. 322 primary codes, which include nine subcategories (parallel work, simultaneity of events, poor planning, insufficient support, unfair recognition, lack of justification for cultural activists, indifference of students, inappropriate information, low participation and sensitivity of professors) and three main categories related to the challenges (structural, students and professors) were obtained.
Conclusion: 
It is very important to pay attention to the missing part of policy making and holistic view in empowering students. The results of the studty showed that there are cultural challenges in the fields related to the structure, students and professors that should be taken into consideration by the macro cultural planners of the university.

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