Prevalence of mistreatment and justice of grading system in five health related faculties in Jordan University of Science and Technology.

Background: Many Jordanian university students complain of the behavior of some teaching staff. Also, they complain of the grading systems in universities.Aim: This study concerns the occurrence of different forms of student mistreatment and student mistrust of the grading system in the Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) as an example of universities in Jordan.Method: A total of 500 students in five health related faculties in JUST responded to a questionnaire.Results: Our results were as follow: (i) 61% of the students had experienced at least one form of mistreatment; (ii) perceived mistreatment most often (52%) had taken the form of psychological mistreatment (shouting and humiliation); (iii) other forms of mistreatment such as physical harm (32%), mistreatment related to religion (36%), mistreatment related to external appearance (35%), sexual harassment (33%) and mistreatment related to specialty (29%) were also common; (iv) with the exception of mistreatment related to specialty whic...