The effect training of communication skills with a religious approach on professional ethics and procrastination in Employees of Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences

Communication skills are a set of skills that can lead to an optimal interaction between individuals and groups within the organization and provide ground for professional ethics and staff procrastination. Accordingly, the present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effect of training of communication skills with religious approach to professional ethics and occupational hardship of employees.
This study is experimental and used pretest-posttest with control group. The statistical population of the study consisted of administrative staff of Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences in 1395, 80 of them were selected by simple random sampling and randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups (40 individuals each).
The intervention group received 6 sessions of 90 minutes and during 6 weeks, they received communication skills with religious approach training and did not see the educational control group. For collecting data, standard questionnaires of professional ethics and procrastination were used. For analyzing data, SPSS-22 software and descriptive and inferential statistical methods (ANCOVA) were used.
The results showed that communication skills training with religious approach had a positive and significant effect on the professional ethics (F = 5.33, P