Education and Ethics In Nursing ISSN: 2322-5300

Investigating the factors preventing the observance of ethics and professional behavior in educational, research and medical centers of Iran: a systematic review study

https://doi.org/10.22034/ethic.2024.2031864.1058
Volume 13, 1-2
April 2024
Pages 61-78
Education and Ethics In Nursing ISSN: 2322-5300

Document Type : Review Article

Authors

Nilay Rezaei Tavabe 1
Fatemeh Zeynab Kiani 2
Ali Ahmadi 3

1 Shahrekord university medical of sciences

2 MSc of Epidemiology, Modeling in Health Research Center, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord, Iran

3 Professor of Epidemiology, Modeling in Health Research Center, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord, Iran

Abstract
Introduction:
Professional ethics is one of the basic issues in human societies and it is a kind of professional responsibility and obligation that a person has in his job. Due to the lack of a comprehensive survey in Iran, this study was conducted with the aim of collecting the available documents about the factors preventing the observance of ethics and professional behavior in the country's health system.
Methods & Materials:
This study is a systematic review and using standard keywords in Mesh in MagIran, Iran medex, Google scholar, SID, Pubmed, Scopus, Web of science databases and in the period of 2007-2022 in Persian language and English, and 84 articles with full text and research quality were included in the study based on valid checklists) Newcastle-Ottawa  , AMSTAR(
Results:
During the review of the articles, 27 articles were included in the study, and more than two hundred important points related to the factors preventing the observance of professional ethics were reported scattered in the articles. One of the most important factors preventing professional ethics in the field of higher education was discrimination in dealing with students, in the field of research plagiarism, in the field of treatment, lack of strength towards the patient, and in the field of professional behavior, lack of knowledge.
Conclusion:
In addition to the fact that ethical and behavioral issues are learned indirectly and covertly through modeling others, this study suggests that professional ethics education should be carried out in the health system.

Keywords

professional ethics
professional behavior
barriers to professional ethics
systematic review
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