Islamic Behavior and Dress Code of the Students From the Standpoint of the Professors of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences

The implementation of Islamic dress code and behavior at universities is a part of the Islamic etiquette which reflects the cultural form and content of the Islamic society. The present study aimed to evaluate the awareness of the faculty members of these regulations and their drawbacks and strengths. For the purposes of the study, the faculty members were asked about the extent of the success in the implementation of those regulations at Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences.

This cross-sectional study was carried out using a descriptive approach. The required data were collected through a questionnaire that included demographic information and 33 main questions about the subject. In total, 68 faculty members were selected from all the faculties. The collected data were analyzed in SPSS software (version 20) using Mann-Whitney, Kruskal-Wallis, and Spearman correlation coefficients.

Based on the findings, 72.1% of the professors were aware of the dress code and behavior regulations, while 55.9% of them stated that they were not properly informed about these regulations. Moreover, 48.5% of the professors adhered to these regulations and 17.2%, 46.6%, 31%, and 2.5% of them considered these regulations highly, moderately,  hardly, and very scarcely successful, respectively.

The majority of the professors of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences had a positive attitude towards the implementation of Islamic dress code and behavior at the university and believed that it would maintain the expediency and dispose of the moral harms. Furthermore, they insisted on persuasive and informative attempts as precautionary policies.