introduction : body is a phenomenon not only biological, but social and cultural and today as signs of personal and cultural identity, that can be socially built so its construction and function are a state of social and cultural beliefs. researchers believe that the body and culture do not exist apart from each other, and the embodiment of body goes to people`s culture and society in which liv...

This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention to reduce bicycle injuries among rural middle school students in China. A one-year cluster-randomized controlled trial was conducted with seventh grade students from six middle schools in two towns in rural Chaoshan, China. The two towns were randomly assigned to either the intervention or control group. Road safety education mat...

results among a total of 152 subjects, 82.9% were female and their mean age was 22.57 ± 1.55 years. according to the students, instructors had the weakest performance in the three items of teaching pharmacology and medication management based on the students’ learning needs, teaching medication management through a patient-centered method and teaching pharmacology and medication management base...

Although several cross-sectional surveys have shown that certain traits such as extraversion and neuroticism are related to emotion regulation, few studies have explored the nature of this relationship. The present study tried to explore the longitudinal relation between traits and emotion regulation strategies. The Interpersonal Self-Support Scale for Middle School Students (ISSS-MSS) and the ...

The purpose of this study was to determine the recognition of body image and food behavior factors according to the BMI. The subjects of this study were 242 7th grade students resided in San Francisco area. The degree of recognition for self-estimated physique of subjects by gender and by race showed no significant differences by gender but significant differences by race, showing that 20.0% wa...

conclusions the present study showed that the nursing students are not quite competent in the process of medication therapy both from their own and their clinical instructors’ perspectives. this finding shows the urgent need to implement some actions to strengthen the students’ skills in medication therapy. materials and methods a descriptive study was conducted. data gathered using a self-repo...

background: academic achievement depends on the knowledge and application of effective study skills. the aim of this study was to investigate the student’s study skills of golestan university of medical sciences, iran. methods: 558 students enrolled in the study via census sampling in the year 2008-2009. the data was collected using congos´ study skills inventory. to analyze the data, independe...