Marzieh Khalilpour; Habibeh Ahmadipour; Mina Mobasher
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Background: Although medical errors in the clinical system are a common cause of lawsuits against physicians, ethical violations have been reported at an alarming pace. We conducted this study to determine the frequency of ethical issues related to patientphysician relationships in registered complaints ...
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Background: Although medical errors in the clinical system are a common cause of lawsuits against physicians, ethical violations have been reported at an alarming pace. We conducted this study to determine the frequency of ethical issues related to patientphysician relationships in registered complaints in three teaching hospitals in Kerman, Iran, from 2015 to 2018.Methods: In this cross-sectional study, we extracted data from all complaint cases registered in the complaints offices. The data were categorized according to ethical issues in the physicianpatient relationship including breaching confidentiality, not telling the truth to the patient, not obtaining informed consent, abandoning further treatment, causing unnecessary expenses, violating privacy, and not respecting the patient; then, we compared them according to our objectives using SPSS software.Results: The results showed that 51.7% of the physicians who had been sued were male, and 30.2% of all of them were general surgeons. The most common ethical issues were related to not respecting the patient (49.7%), abandoning further treatment (25.5%), not telling the truth to the patient (14.1%), and not obtaining informed consent (5.4%).Conclusion: The complaints received in three teaching hospitals can reveal the disregard for ethical codes, and irresponsible behavior among healthcare providers may endanger the patients’ safety and increase the likelihood of injury in these hospitals. Further studies are recommended to determine the factors that influence ethical violation in the healthcare setting.
Arash Mani; Leila Khabir; Amir Reza Khodaman
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Background: Bipolar mood disorder (BMD) with a lifetime history of Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) characterized by a particularly neuropsychological profile. This study aimed to clarify whether there is a difference between BMD patients with ADHD and BMD patients without ADHD in terms ...
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Background: Bipolar mood disorder (BMD) with a lifetime history of Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) characterized by a particularly neuropsychological profile. This study aimed to clarify whether there is a difference between BMD patients with ADHD and BMD patients without ADHD in terms of neuropsychological functioning.Methods: This is a cross-sectional study with 68 samples (24 patients had BMD with ADHD and 44 patients had BMD) selected based on the target sampling during a year (March 2014 to March 2015). Tower of London (ToL) task, Conners’ Continuous Performance Test (CPT), and Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) were used for assessing neuropsychological functioning in participants. All statistical analyses were performed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 16 software.Results: The results revealed that the BMD with ADHD group was not more impaired than the BMD group on two measures of executive functioning TOL and CPT. The BMD in the ADHD group was more impaired than the BMD group on WCST.Conclusion: This study will be effective in understanding whether the cognitive flexibility impairments often detected in adult BMD are partially the result of lifetime ADHD.
Leila Bazrafkan; Masoud Yousefi; Javad Kojuri; Mohammad Ansarizadeh; Habibolah Rezaei
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Background: The current study examines general dental students’ views about the ethics level in education, research, and provision of dental services.Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was performed on all general dental students at Yasuj University of Medical Sciences selected in ...
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Background: The current study examines general dental students’ views about the ethics level in education, research, and provision of dental services.Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was performed on all general dental students at Yasuj University of Medical Sciences selected in the census. The researcher-made questionnaire was prepared online with PorsLine. In this questionnaire, examples of observing or not observing ethics in education, research, and provision of dental services by faculty members were presented to the dental students. Finally, all collected data were analyzed by SPSS software version 26.Results: 47 students participated in the current study. The participant’s mean age was 25.95 with a standard deviation of 3.5. Results of the study showed that the mean and standard deviation of non-observance of ethics in education, the provision of dental services, and research were 3.05±0.9, 2.37±1.03, and 3.04±1.15, respectively.Conclusion: General dental students reported that the level of ethics in education, research, and provision of dental services by faculty members was unfavorable, so it is recommended that medical education courses related to ethics should be held for faculty members.
Habibolah Rezaei; Seyede Yasamin Hossayni; Seyed Alisaleh Golami; Masoud Yousefi; Fatemeh Mohammadi
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Background: Identifying ethical challenges and then developing ethical codes and making ethical decisions are one of the solutions to promote professional ethics in any field. Given that ethical challenges in Iranian dentistry education have not been identified so far, the aim of the present study was ...
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Background: Identifying ethical challenges and then developing ethical codes and making ethical decisions are one of the solutions to promote professional ethics in any field. Given that ethical challenges in Iranian dentistry education have not been identified so far, the aim of the present study was to explain the ethical challenges in dentistry education.Methods: The present qualitative research was performed using qualitative content analysis approach. Participants included faculty members and students of general dentistry from dental schools of metropolitan area 5 of Iran (Shiraz, Yasuj, Bushehr, and Bandar Abbas); they were selected using purposeful sampling. The researcher collected data using semi-structured interviews and focus group. Participants’ conversations were recorded, implemented immediately, and analyzed using MAXQDATA software version 10. Confirmability, credibility, dependability, and transferability were used as the criteria used to ensure scientific accuracy.Results: A total of 16 faculty members attended focus group sessions and individual interviews. A total of 114 codes were extracted, which were classified into three main categories: ethical challenge in the educational system (three subcategories), educational ethical challenge related to faculty members (four subcategories), and educational ethical challenge related to students (two sub-categories).Conclusion: There are many ethical challenges in the field of dental education from the faculty members and students’ perspective that must be addressed by faculty authorities, faculty members, and students. It is suggested that solutions to address these challenges should be considered in future researches; if necessary, appropriate ethical codes should be codified in this regard.
