background osteoporosis is one of the most common metabolic bone diseases and is the silent epidemic of this era. objectives this study evaluates the effect of education that is based on the health belief model on promoting osteoporosis prevention behaviors among female high school students. conclusions the education based on health belief model plays an important role in increasing knowledge a...

statement of problem: pit and fissure sealant therapy has been approved as an effective measure in the prevention of occlusal dental caries. resin based ma- terials are the most common materials used worldwide. a variety of resin based fissure sealants are produced and used. most of them have been presented with ideal results in research environment. however, their effectiveness in the real lif...

background: skin cancer is a serious public health problem in the world. its prevalence in many countries has been increased in recent years. this study aimed to assess the effects of a theory-based educational intervention to promote skin cancer preventive behaviors (scpbs) among rural farmers in chalderan county, iran.   methods: this was a quasi-randomized controlled field trial study conduc...

this study addresses the question of whether conservative methods of restoration may be applied efficaciously in permanent posterior teeth with proximal lesions and intact occlusal preventive resin restoration (prr). the purpose of the present study was to assess the microleakage at amalgam-composite interface and composite-composite interface in permanent tooth with prr.thirty-five premolar te...

background: the belief, attitude, subjective norm, enabling factors (basnef) model is one of the most complete models for evaluating behaviors and creating new behaviors. therefore, this research was designed and performed to describe factors related to cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl) preventive behaviors on the basis of the basnef model in endemic areas of yazd, iran. methods: in this cross-secti...

a group of high school students attended 7 educational sessions for a preventive drug abuse program. the students were exposed to drug abusers and their families. drug abusers and their families informed the subjects about the consequences of addiction in their life: how they became addicted and how the addiction worsened their psychosocial life. moreover their families explained to students th...

THE INNOVATION The problem that we are trying to solve is the low uptake of preventive care advice. Unfortunately, many opportunities for family physicians and practice nurses to provide preventive care are missed,1 and reminders that are e-mailed or texted to patients, advertised on posters, or presented to clinicians on screen are often ineffective. Patients have the strongest interest in rec...

Every society has got a body of beliefs. norms and concepts with regard to the nature of disease and its treatment. These are clos ely integrated with the cultural matrix or social organization of the society. According to their own concepts of cause and prevention, the people practise some form of preventive medicine. The character and dynamism of any form of preventive and curative medicine d...

BACKGROUND Participation in population-based preventive health check has declined over the past decades. More research is needed to determine factors enhancing participation. The objective of this study was to examine the association between two measures of neighborhood level social capital on participation in the health check phase of a population-based lifestyle intervention. METHODS The st...