background: healthy dietary habits are known as a key factor for improving brain functions and cognitive ability in children and adolescents. the goal of this study was to evaluate the association of healthy food consumption with mental health in iranian children and adolescents.materials and methods: data were obtained from the fourth national school-based surveillance survey entitled caspian-...

background: parenting style is associated with children's health-related behaviors. one of the popularity and applicability assessment tools is parenting style and dimensions questionnaire (psdq) that the lack of iranian version can be seen.this study was conducted to determine the validity and reliability of iranian version of psdq.materials and methods: this study was done with randomize...

BACKGROUND Previous research has indicated that children's behaviors have long-term effects on later life. Hence it is important to monitor the development of health risk behaviors in childhood. This study examined the changes in health risk behaviors in fourth- to sixth-grade students in northern Taiwan from 2001 to 2003. METHODS The Child and Adolescent Behaviors in Long-Term Evolution (CAB...

BACKGROUND Multiple health risk behaviors (HRBs) among adolescents pose a threat to their health, including HIV/AIDS. Health risk behaviors such as alcohol use, smoking, substance use, and sexual risk behaviors among youth have been shown to co-occur with each others. The objectives of this study was to estimate the prevalence of single and concurrent health risk behaviors and to explore how he...

background & aim:  the most important risk factor for one’s sexual health is high-risk sexual behavior. implementation of educational programs has been considered as one of the most crucial interventions in the prevention and treatment of these behaviors. therefore, this study aimed to determine the effect of an educational program on the knowledge and attitude of female sex workers toward prev...

BACKGROUND Child abuse is an important health issue but it is little known how abuse experiences in childhood and current health risk behaviors are related. OBJECTIVES To (a) study the prevalence and characteristics of child abuse experience, (b) test the hypothesis that youths with a history of child abuse would have more health risk behaviors compared to their non-abused counterparts and (c...

PURPOSE The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention monitors health-risk behaviors of adolescents in United States, which include (1) violence; (2) tobacco use; (3) alcohol and other drug use; (4) sexual behaviors contributing to unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases; (5) inadequate physical activity; and (6) unhealthy dietary behaviors. We reviewed original re...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether parentally bereaved offspring are more likely to engage in health risk behaviors than nonbereaved control offspring. DESIGN Controlled population-based study. SETTING Bereaved families were recruited from coroner records and by advertisement. Control families were recruited using random-digit dialing and by advertisement. PARTICIPANTS At 9.0 months after t...

BACKGROUND Overall cancer incidence rates decreased in the most recent time period in both men and women, largely due to improvements in surgical therapeutic approaches (tertiary prevention) and screening programs (secondary prevention), but differences in cancer incidence and survival according to socioeconomic status are documented worldwide. Health risk behaviors, defined as habits or practi...