Iranian Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine

Military psychologists and mental health professionals live and work alongside their potential patients. For the most important concerns of military psychologists are multiple relationships, confidentiality, sudden role shifts and avoiding harm. The purpose of this study was to explore experiences of the military psychologists regarding ethical challenges in the counseling centers of one of the Iranian military forces. This qualitative and content analysis study was performed on 31 military psychologists during 2019. Participants had a master's degree in one of the psychology majors and 5-15 years of work experience. Data were collected by electronic questionnaire, due to access difficulty. The most important challenges of professional ethics mentioned by the participants included boundaries of competence, confidentiality, multiple relationships, and sudden role shifts. The results of this study showed that one of the problems affecting the performance of military psychologists is ethics’ issues and its challenges. Thus, according to this study, to better manage possible ethical challenges for military psychologists, they are suggested to participate in workshops and become acquainted with important ethical decisions and ethical conflicts inherent to military settings, be active in obtaining consultation and supervisions, and involve themselves in self-monitoring programs to consistently make good ethical decisions.

In medical centers, compliance of personal and social behaviors with ethics and religious standards is very important and requires constant evaluations. Therefore, the present study was conducted to determine the compliance of medical affairs with the standards of the Holy Sharia from the perspective of patients and interns in the teaching hospitals of Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences in Ahvaz in 2020. This was a descriptive cross-sectional study and the statistical population consisted of 204 interns and 385 patients referred to the teaching hospitals of Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences in Ahvaz. Sampling was done randomly. Data were collected by data collection form and questionnaire from patients and interns which was collected by the researcher including 17 questions. Data were analyzed by SPSS version20 software and descriptive and inferential statistics. From the interns' point of view, there was a significant difference (P <0.05) between the compliance of medical affairs with the standards of holy sharia in different hospitals and gender, but there was no significant difference in different ages and marital status (P> 0.05). From the patients' point of view; There was no significant difference (P >0.05) between the compliance of medical affairs with the standards of the Holy Sharia based on gender, age, education, marital status, and hospital. From interns and patients point of view, compliance with Holy Sharia standards were 45.1% and 40.5%, respectively. According to the results of the present study, physical space and more medical staff in both genders are required to fully comply medical affairs with the standards of the Holy Sharia in all the examined hospitals.