Academic Integrity Perceptions Among Health-Professions' Students: A Cross-Sectional Study in The Middle East.

ABSTRACT: A high level of professional integrity is expected from healthcare professionals, and literature suggests a relationship between unethical behavior of healthcare professionals and poor academic integrity behavior at medical school. While academic integrity is well researched in western countries, it is not so in the Middle East, which is characterized by different cultural values that may influence students' academic integrity conduct. We conducted a cross-sectional study among health-professions students at a university in the Middle East to assess perceptual differences on various cheating behaviors, as well as to explore the reasons underlying the cheating behavior. A validated survey instrument disseminated among first and second-year undergraduate students resulted in 211 complete res

SUBMITTER: Kadayam Guruswami G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9255445 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature