Organizations are becoming more aware about the importance of economic, financial and risk management aspects of information system security. As a result, the balance between preventive and corrective security strategies must be studied. We understand Preventive Security as the ability of organizations to avoid the impact of an incident and Corrective Security as the ability of the firm to reco...

Health behaviors are known to be multidimensional, but the precise number of dimensions involved and their behavioral content have not been clearly established. Using convergence of factor analyses of 40 health behaviors across two samples as the criterion for identifying both the number and content of health behavior dimensions, the present study showed that individual differences in health be...

OBJECTIVES To examine the overall effectiveness of patient education and counseling on preventive health behaviors and to examine the effects of various approaches for modifying specific types of behaviors. DATA SOURCES Computerized databases (Medline, Healthline, Dissertation Abstracts, and Psychological Abstracts), bibliographies 1971-1994. Search terms (patient education, patient complianc...

PURPOSE Depression and health risk behaviors in adolescents are leading causes of preventable morbidity and mortality. Primary care visits provide prime opportunities to screen and provide preventive services addressing risk behaviors/conditions. This study evaluated the co-occurrence of depression and health risk behaviors (focusing on smoking, drug and alcohol misuse, risky sexual behavior, a...

Predictors of Preventive Behaviors Against the Common Acute Respiratory Viral Infections among Female Hairdressers in Urmia: Application Extended Protection Motivation Theory

BACKGROUND Several studies reported the efficacy of osteoporosis prevention interventions in improvement of people's preventive behaviors. However, there are reports that the interventions were not successful in altering osteoporosis health beliefs and preventive behaviors. OBJECTIVES The current study aimed to assess the effect of a program based on health beliefs model (HBM) on females' hea...

Based on the results of Studies by researchers on behavior change, today, successful preventive education is carried out according to well-known models. Although randomized controlled trials are the most accurate test for Studies on health behaviors.

objective: this research aimed at evaluating the moderator role of school connection on the impact of violent friends towards aggressive behaviors in adolescent students of tehran high schools. methods: a sample of 3529 participants from tehran high school students was selected using multistage sampling method. participants completed school connection questionnaire (scq), iranian adolescents ri...