Relationships between ethical decision-making and professional behavior in Iranian nursing students.

Ethical decision-making and professional behavior are essential skills in nursing profession, hence educational programs should be designed to enable future nurses to tackle problems related to ethical decision-making. This descriptive, correlational and analytical study aimed at determining the ability of Iranian nursing students to make ethical decisions as well as relationship between such decisions and professional behavior. The present study used census to select 140 freshmen from the School of Nursing and Midwifery of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.

The Relationship of COVID-19 Morbidity and Mortality with the History of Influenza Vaccination.

COVID-19 is currently the leading global health issue. Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) face challenges in supplying COVID-19 vaccines. To assess an adjunctive preventive measure for COVID-19 burden, we aimed to evaluate the relationship of influenza vaccination in the previous year with outcomes of COVID-19 in affirmed cases after adjustment for relevant factors.

Moral awareness and its relationship with moral sensitivity among Iranian nursing students: A basis for nursing ethics education.

Aim: This descriptive-analytical correlational study was carried out to examine moral awareness and its relationship with moral sensitivity among Iranian nursing students.

Design: A descriptive-analytical correlational study.

Methods: The present descriptive-analytical study was performed among 140 Iranian nursing students.

Teaching professionalism in medical residency programs: a scoping review protocol.

Background: Professionalism is a core competency of medical residents in residency programs. Unprofessional behavior has a negative influence on patient safety, quality of care, and interpersonal relationships. The objective of this scoping review is to map the range of teaching methods of professionalism in medical residency programs (in all specialties and in any setting, whether in secondary, primary, or community care settings).

Knowledge of medical professionalism in medical students and physicians at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences and affiliated hospitals-Iran.

Although medical professionalism is a fundamental aspect of competence in medicine and a distinct facet of physicians' competence, evidence suggests that the subject of professionalism is not taught or assessed as part of medical students' curricula in Iran and many other countries. Assessing the knowledge of medical students and physicians about medical professionalism seems to be helpful in identifying the weaknesses of training in the field of professionalism and devise plans for future training on the subject.The present cross-sectional, quantitative, observational, and prevalence study recruited 149 medical interns, clinical residents, physicians, and professors working in hospitals selected through stratified random sampling using a questionnaire designed by the researchers and confirmed for its validity and reliability.

Cancer in East Azerbaijan, Iran: results of a population-based cancer registry.

Background And Aims: Regardless of the fact that cancers of GI tract have been reported to be the most common fatal neoplasms in East Azerbaijan, there is a serious lack of population-based studies in this region.

Methods: A comprehensive search was therefore undertaken to prospectively register all cases of cancer occurring in the province during March 2006-2007. Diagnosis of cancer was based on histopathology of primary lesions in 84.