AI Article Synopsis

  • Evaluating the moral principles of healthcare workers is crucial because their decisions directly impact community health and well-being.
  • A study involving 1,235 medical students from Alborz University aimed to analyze factors influencing their ethical decision-making through various questionnaires and statistical analysis.
  • Results indicated a strong connection between ethical reasoning and decision-making, with moral sensitivity positively influencing ethical choices, suggesting a need to improve ethical training in medical education.

Article Abstract

Background: Evaluating moral principles in the Society of Medical Sciences and health care workers (HCWs) is imperative due to their direct contact with the community and the significant impact of their attitudes and decisions on people's lives. This study aimed to determine the components related to ethical decisions in medical sciences students.

Methods: One thousand two hundred thirty-five eligible students in the Alborz University of Medical Sciences participated in this descriptive study. We gathered their socio-demographic information, assessed their moral reasoning, and used the ethical decisions questionnaire, Lutsen moral sensitivity questionnaire, and general health questionnaire (GHQ) for data gathering. The data were analyzed with SPSS software version 25 and LISREL version 8.8.

Results: According to the path analysis test findings, ethical reasoning significantly correlated with ethical decision-making (B = 0.40). The number of clinical courses passed, moral sensation (moral sensitivity), and the total number of passed academic semesters had the greatest positive and negative association with ethical decision-making, respectively. (B = 0.54), (B = 0.524) and (B = -0.11).

Conclusion: Based on the findings of the moral reasoning test, the moral sensation was associated with ethical decision-making, which indicates the necessity of attending to ethical aspects, promoting moral reasoning, sensitivity, and students' accuracy.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11023167PMC
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0297494PLOS

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