منیژه سلیمانی

The present study was conducted with the aim of designing a model of professional ethics in the health education system of the Vice Chancellor for Health of the Northwestern University of Medical Sciences. This combined study was conducted as a combination of qualitative and quantitative sequential exploratory mix. In the qualitative section, 43 experts including health education professors of northwestern medical universities were selected by purposive sampling and theoretical sampling and qualitative data were collected using in-depth interviews on the subject up to saturation stage after data collection. And definition of concepts and categories, information was provided to key participants and opinion polls were conducted and comparisons with the literature were made to confirm the external validity. Open coding, axial coding and selective coding analysis were performed. After extracting the final components of the questionnaire, 60 questions were prepared based on the theoretical foundations and information of the interviews. The reliability of the questionnaire was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.92. In the quantitative section, 473 people were randomly selected from all health care providers and health education experts in the field of health of Northwestern University of Medical Sciences. After distributing the questionnaire, the extracted data were analyzed using SPSS and LISREL software. The results of confirmatory factor analysis and measurement equations for each of the structures were significant based on the amount of factor loads obtained and the amount of factor load of all indicators was greater than 0.3. The fitted measurement model had a good fit and was approved. The validity of the model was confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis and Cronbach's high alpha coefficient, and finally the final model of professional ethics in the health education system of the Northwest Health Department with loyalty components; responsibility; Competitiveness; Honesty; Respect for others; Respect for social values ​​and norms; Justice and fairness; Empathy with others; Liquidity; decisiveness; the trust ; Cross-sectoral cooperation; Observance of order; positive attitude; A commitment was made. Also, the degree of importance of each component of professional ethics in the health education system of the health department of the northwestern universities of medical sciences was determined.

The aim of this study was to identify the components of professional ethics in health education in the field of health of the northwestern universities of medical sciences in Iran.

This qualitative research was conducted through semi-structured face-to-face interviews with 43 experts in northwestern medical universities. Purposeful and theoretical sampling method was used to select the samples. Data were analyzed using qualitative content analysis.

On the basis of semantic commonalities, 48 concepts were formed, and placed in six categories of ethical components of implementers in the health education system by the titles of responsibility to the general public, responsibility to the profession, responsibility to employers, responsibility in providing education Health, responsibility in research and evaluation, and responsibility in professional preparation.

 The Vice Chancellor for Health of Medical Universities is in charge of providing, maintaining and promoting the health of the community, moving in this direction by planning, organizing, evaluating and providing health services as wll as using innovative and creative methods. Improving the health of the covered community is one of the major goals of this important unit in the community. The ethical model obtained in the health education system of the health department of the northwestern medical universities of the country has components such as loyalty; responsibility; competitiveness; honesty; respect for others; respect for social values and norms; justice and fairness; empathy with others; liquidity; decisiveness; the trust; Cross-sectoral cooperation; observance of order; positive attitude and commitment.

the presence of mentally retarded child in the family causes various psychological problems in the parents. Among the variables affected by the presence of disabled child in the family are hope، life quality and psychological well-being. Therefore the present study was conducted to investigate the effect of hope therapy on the improvement of life quality، hope and psychological well-being in mothers of mentally retarded children. it was semi-experimental، with pretest، posttest، and control group format because of available sampling. The statistical population included all the mothers of mentally retarded children in Isfahan. In order to do the study 60 mothers of mentally retarded children were selected through available sampling. Therefore the criterion to enter the study was having a mentally retarded child and readiness to take part in the research and the criterion to exit was having a child with a disorder or other inabilities. The experimental groups participated in 8 ninety-minute sessions of hope therapy; however، the control group didn''t receive any intervention while administering the test. The applied instruments were the questionnaires of hope، psychological well-being and life satisfaction. the results showed that teaching hope therapy has led to significant difference in the mean of experimental group scores in all three variables of life quality، hope and psychological well-being (p<0. 01). hope-based therapy could improve the hope، psychological well-being and life quality in the parents of mentally retarded children due to focusing on the major problem and attending solely on the concept of hope. Therefore، through utilizing this therapeutic approach is recommended to solve the families'' psychological dilemmas.