OBJECTIVES To quantify the relationship between meteorological factors and bacillary dysentery incidence. DESIGN Ecological study. SETTING We collected bacillary dysentery incidences and meteorological data of Chaoyang city from the year 1981 to 2010. The climate in this city was a typical northern temperate continental monsoon. All meteorological factors in this study were divided into 4 l...

BACKGROUND Fear of childbirth may cause complications such as experiencing severe labour pain, postpartum depression, and impaired mother-fetus attachment. OBJECTIVE To validate the Farsi version of the Wijma Delivery Expectancy/Experience Questionnaire (W-DEQ) (versions A & B) in a sample of Iranian women. METHODS The WDE-Q (versions A & B) was translated into Farsi, and the content validi...

Objective: This study explored the possibility of integrating Health Belief Concepts as additional predictors of intention to adopt a recommended diet-category within the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). Methods: The study adopted a Sequential Exploratory Mixed Methods approach. Qualitative data were generated on attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control and perceptions on predet...

BACKGROUND The psychometric properties of an instrument should be evaluated routinely when using different samples. This study evaluated the psychometric properties of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G) when applied to a sample of Brazilian cancer patients. METHODS The face, content, and construct (factorial, convergent, and discriminant) validities of the FACT-G wer...

BACKGROUND Most college students do not adequately participate in enough physical activity (PA) to attain health benefits. A theory-based approach is critical in developing effective interventions to promote PA. The purpose of this study was to examine the utility of the newly proposed multi-theory model (MTM) of health behavior change in predicting initiation and sustenance of PA among college...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this cross-sectional study was to explore quality of life (QOL) in a sample of postmenopausal women with physical disabilities due to polio contracted in childhood. A structural equation model was used to confirm that menopause symptoms will have a minimal effect on QOL when disability-related variables are taken into account. METHODS A sample of 752 women who were postm...

ارزیابی خشک‌سالی، ازنظر زمانی و مکانی، برای برنامه‌ریزی‌های کاهش خسارات در استان کردستان اهمیت بسیاری دارد. این تحقیق، از شاخص بارش استانداردشده همچنین، پوشش گیاهی بارزشدة استخراجی تصاویر ماهواره‌ای، به‌منزلة پارامتر تعیین‌کنندة استفاده شده است. به‌این‌منظور، داده‌های آماری ایستگاه‌های هواشناسی شامل حداکثر دمای ماهیانه، مجموع سالیانه نیز سنجندة مادیس به‌کار رفته با مقایسة پارامترهای میانگین سال...