Table 3. Facilitating the behavior change and socio-cultural issues: codes and sub-themes .

Codes	Sub-themes	Themes
Providing training to prevent risky behaviors, detecting behaviors related to causes of morbidity and mortality, familiarity with the role of health care providers’ risky behaviors, consulting role, familiarity with the theories of behavior change, creation of motivation for student behavior change	Patient’s behavior change	Facilitating the behavior change
Educating the students about cognitive theories of social learning, encouraging student behavior change, the positive role of informal education in behavior change, the poverty in role modeling in the education chain, the positive role of professors in role modeling	Student’s behavior change	Socio-cultural issues
Patient’s occupation and income, race differences, ethnicity and health of the patients, competency to grasp the social and psychological variables, attending to behavioral and social issues of the patients, patient education	Social differences
Paying attention to patients’ values, mixing culture of care with beliefs, knowing the cultural bed ground of the patients, the role of culture in the description of disease symptoms, family and socio-cultural variables, familiarizing students with cultural issues upon their entrance into the university, understanding economic-cultural variables, respecting patients’ beliefs, impact of ethnic diversity in detecting and treating the disease	Socio-Cultural
Understanding the efficiency and safety of alternative and complementary treatment in local communities, using traditional medicine in uncontrollable pains, supporting the complementary and alternative medicine for educating medical students, agreement with complementary medicine, deletion of superstitions from complementary medicine, traditional medicine as a help to the modern medicine, necessity of providing educational course in connection with traditional medicine, supporting the complementary and alternative treatment strategies, providing training about medical interventions and symptoms resulting from the consumption of traditional medicines	Complementary and alternative medicine