backgroundmalnutrition can threaten mental and physical development of children while healthy nutrition can improve mental and physical status of children. to select the best foods, children need nutrition education. this study aimed to determine the effect of nutrition education on reducing the consumption of unhealthy snacks in female primary school students in qom- iran.materials and methods...

background: osteoporosis is the most common metabolic bone disease in postmenopausal women. it seems necessary to determine the factors affecting the adoption of preventive behaviors of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women using the patterns that identify the factors influencing behavior. objectives: to investigate preventive behaviors of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women in fasa, fars provi...

background: osteoporosis is one of the most common metabolic bone diseases. the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of a prevention program based on health belief model on osteoporosis among women. methods: in this quasi-case study, 120 patients (60 cases and 60 control), registered under the health centers in fasa city, fars province, iran were selected in 2014. a questionnaire...

abstract background: noorabad-e-mamasani has the highest rate of delivery by cesarean section in fars province. cesarean section, as a large surgical operation, is accompanied with some side effects that sometimes get very dangerous and rarely lethal. the present investigation aims to determine the effects of a health belief model-based educational intervention on decreasing cesarean sections a...

background: pregnancy is a unique experience for woman and her family. beside her body physiological changes in pregnancy influence emotion of pregnant woman. therefore, emotion of mother has changed which is result in anxiety feeling. according to unfavorable impact of anxiety on mother, fetus and outcome of pregnancy, this study designed to consider anxiety in nuliparous women based on hbm co...

background: smoking is one of the most common causes of premature.death. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of education using health belief model in the prevention of smoking in high school students of zahedan. methods: in this quasi-experimental study, 380 students selected through randomized cluster sampling method and randomized in two case and control groups. the data col...

background : the systematic application of pap test helps early diagnosis and effective treatment of cervical cancer. this study was conducted to assess the effect of education on health beliefs and practice of women eligible for pap test using health belief model (hbm). methods : this quasi-experimental study was conducted in hamadan city, the west of iran, in 2010 using before-after design. i...

background success of screening programs depends on the people belief toward the importance and necessityof these programs . this study was conducted to determine the effect of health belief on participation of official administrative personnel of shiraz university of medical sciences with an average risk (age: 40 years) for colorectal cancer in fecal occult blood test (fobt). materials and met...

skin cancer is the most prevalent type of cancer in most of the countries and more than 90% of cancer cases are related to ultra violet rays of the sun. therefore protective behaviors against sunlight are considered the most essential measures for skin cancer prevention. this study has been conducted to determine the frequency of protective behavior against sunlight among female students of teh...

backgroundosteoporosis is one of the most important health problems and it is of great importance to prevent this disease. this study aimed to evaluate the nutritional preventive behavior of osteoporosis using health belief model in female students in qom city, iran.materials and methodsthis cross-sectional descriptive analytical study was conducted on 265 tenth to twelfth grade female students...