BACKGROUND Several studies suggest that most school-age children are poorly informed about cancer risk factors. This study examines the effectiveness of the 'Be smart against cancer' (BSAC) program in promoting cancer awareness and intentions to engage in health-promoting behavior. METHODS 235 seventh-grade students were randomized to either the intervention (N = 152) or the wait-control grou...

background: educational interventions to promote physical activity are one of the health priorities. a theoretical approach to promote and maintain physical activity is the transtheoretical model (ttm). this research was conducted to determine the effects of this model on students' physical activity habits in 2011. methods: this quasi-experimental study was conducted on 200 students in two grou...

Many studies have demonstrated that milk protein consumption has benefits in terms of promoting human health. This review assesses the intervention studies which have evaluated potential health enhancing effects in humans following the ingestion of milk proteins. The impact of milk protein ingestion has been studied to asses their satiating, hypotensive, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, antica...

background: urinary tract infection is one of the commonest infections which affect humans. half of all women have a uti in their lifetime and one fourth have recurrent infections. health behaviours can help patients to prevent urinary tract infection recurrence and changing beliefs is necessary for health behaviour change. the aim of this study is to investigate the effect of education based o...

  Abstract  One of the suitable and beneficial methods in promoting behaviors of road traffic injury prevention could be the application of educational programs. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the effect of health belief model on preventive behaviors related to road traffic injuries among primary school students. 100 participants was randomly selected among four...

Background: Stroke is one of the world’s chief reasons death and infirmity among geriatric. Objective: The research at hand analyzed association rFSRP health promotion lifestyle practice about stroke prevention geriatric patients. Design: A randomized controlled experimental study was used in this study. This included 85 control participants. Methods: Participants were randomly selected provide...

introduction: health promoting lifestyle is one of the determinants of health. university years are important phase of life when one can develop health promoting lifestyle. given the high cost of healthcare there is need of shift from a treatment based approach to a preventive approach in which appropriate methods should be developed to promote health and productivity among youth. objective: th...