Explaining the View of Clerics for the Development of Health-Promoting Mosques: A Qualitative Study

All community organizations contribute to achieving the highest level of health and well-being. Therefore, the present study was conducted with a qualitative approach in order to identify the views of clerics to create mosques that promote health.

This qualitative research of content analysis was conducted with the participation of 11 clerics present in mosques who were selected based on the purpose, during 2021 in the city of Hamadan. Data were collected using a semi-structured interview method using an interview guide. Also, the information obtained from the interview was qualitatively analyzed using MAXQDA software version 10.

Based on the findings, the most important personality traits of clerics to create health-promoting mosques include a main category; key values with 5 subcategories such as " Social Participation", "trustworthy", " To have academic ethics ", "Loyalty", "Independence" and the skills required to develop this supportive place contain the main category; empowerment with 7 subcategories was like "Acquiring Motivational Skills", "Acquisition of value creation skills", "Virtue of moderation", "Improvement of communication skills", "Acquisition of communication facilitation skills", "Empowerment of health literacy promotion", "Acquisition of skills of persuasion methods".

In general, health promotion mosques are considered a supportive environment to promote the health of people in the community. Accordingly, it is necessary to use key values such as having a spirit of social participation and empowerment of clerics present in mosques as one of the most important involved in these supportive environments, to develop health promotion mosques. It is also possible to improve the health of people in the community, especially vulnerable groups, and improve their quality of life by creating this supportive environment.