نتایج جستجو برای: preventive behaviors

تعداد نتایج: 176055  

Dehghankar, Leila, Panahi, Rahman, Razaghpoor, Ali, Shafaei, Mahya,

Background and aim: Health literacy can be one of the most important effective factors in the adoption of preventive behaviors of osteoporosis by raising awareness and understanding the benefits of diagnostic and preventive behaviors. The objective of this study was to determine the health literacy skills effective in predicting adoption of osteoporosis preventive behaviors in high school femal...

Journal: :international journal of pediatrics 0
zahra hosseini social determinants in health promotion research center, hormozgan university of medical sciences, bandar abbas, iran zeynab karimi msc, faculty of health, qom university of medical sciences, qom, iran. siamak mohebi department of health education and promotion, faculty of health, qom university of medical sciences, qom, iran. gholamreza sharifirad faculty of medicine, islamic azad university, qom branch, iran ahmad rahbar department of public health, faculty of health, qom university of medical sciences, qom, iran. zabihollah gharlipour department of health education and promotion, faculty of health, qom university of medical sciences, qom, iran.

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...

  Introduction: Osteoporosis is a major health problem and is the most common metabolic disorder. This disease is a diffuse bone disease characterized by increased risk of fracture.. Also, with regard to the fact that nurses as hospital staff who have the greatest contact with patients can play an important role in identifying people at risk, counseling and learning about disease prevention an...

Journal: :Health economics 2014
Bénédicte Apouey Gabriel Picone

This paper examines the existence of social interactions in malaria preventive behaviors in Sub-Saharan Africa, that is, whether an individual's social environment has an influence on the individual's preventive behaviors. We focus on the two population groups which are the most vulnerable to malaria (children under 5 years and pregnant women) and on two preventive behaviors (sleeping under a b...

2012
Rebecca Katz Larissa May Megan Sanza Lindsay Johnston Bruno Petinaux

BACKGROUND When H1N1 emerged in 2009, institutions of higher education were immediately faced with questions about how best to protect their community from the virus, yet limited information existed to help predict student preventive behaviors. METHODS The authors surveyed students at a large urban university in November 2009 to better understand how students perceived their susceptibility to...

2015
Belinda M. Reininger Jing Wang Susan P. Fisher-Hoch Alycia Boutte Kristina Vatcheva Joseph B. McCormick

BACKGROUND Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are rising among US Hispanics, but few studies have examined the preventive health behaviors for these NCDs among Hispanics. This study compared the preventive health behaviors of smoke-free living, physical activity, fruit and vegetable consumption, and avoidance of heavy alcohol use in Hispanics in the United States and Hispanics living along the US...

Elham Charoghchian Khorasani, Fateme Ghodsikhah, Fateme Yaghobi, Nooshin Peyman,

Introduction: Despite recent advances in the prevention of parasitic diseases, pediculosis is still one of the most common problems in Iran. This study was designed to determine the effect of parenting education based on self-efficacy theory on preventative behaviors of Pediculosis infection in female students in Mashhad, Iran. Method: This quasi-experimental study was conducted on the parents...

2008
Anh Nhat Tran Guadalupe X. Ayala Shrikant Bangdiwala Noel Brewer Megan Lewis

ANH NHAT TRAN An African-American and Latino Male Lay Health Advisor (LHA) Program: How Confidant-LHA Relationship Interdependence and LHA Preventive Health Behaviors Impact Confidant Preventive Health Behaviors (Under the direction of Eugenia Eng) INTRODUCTION: In the United States, many men of color experience poor health outcomes and confront serious healthcare obstacles. Yet, little researc...

Journal: :Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 2005
Lisa Madlensky Robert A Vierkant Celine M Vachon V Shane Pankratz James R Cerhan Susan Thomas Vadaparampil Thomas A Sellers

AIM To examine medical and lifestyle preventive behaviors among women with varying levels of familial breast cancer risk. METHODS Using cross-sectional data from the Minnesota Breast Cancer Family Study, a historical cohort of 426 families, we compared medical (mammography adherence, antiestrogen use, and prophylactic surgery) and lifestyle (physical activity, smoking, alcohol, and diet) beha...

2008
Padmaja Ayyagari Alessandro Tarozzi Curtis R. Taylor Ahmed Khwaja

PREVENTIVE HEALTH BEHAVIORS AMONG THE

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