conclusions the dental health status of hiv-positive patients in this region was almost inappropriate. most social, behavioral, and medical factors had no influence on dental health; only a correlation between dental health, age, and duration of hiv involvement was observed. results the mean value of dmft index was 11.87 ± 8.08, where the mean values of decayed and missing teeth were 8.42 ± 5.4...

background and aims: the prevalence of obesity among children and adolescents is increasing worldwide. one of the key lifestyle behaviors that helps prevent obesity and being overweight among children and adolescents is to avoid drinking sugar-sweetened beverages (ssbs) or to take, at most, one serving per day. the present study intended to evaluate knowledge and perceptions of high school girl...

conclusions this study indicated that health belief model contrasts could predict the risky behavior of university students due to heart disease. however, more researches are needed to verify the predictors of high risky behaviors in students. background disease preventing methods focus mostly on lifestyle factors such as physical activity, healthy diet and not smoking. previous studies verifie...

objectives: to determine the behavioral pattern of golestan university of medical science (gums) students as pedestrian and car occupants in relation to traffic law based on health belief model. methods: this cross-sectional study was performed during 2012 in gums. a total of 370 students of gums were selected using multi-stage sampling method including stratified and random sampling. data were...

infants and children are valuable human resources for our future. their desirable growth influences the quality of human resources for the future. nutritional education is one of the most important ways to improve children's health. the purpose of this study was to determine the impact of nutrition education program on reducing growth failure among children based on health belief model (hbm) in...

background: undoubtedly proper nutrition has a great role in the prevention of many diseases, especially osteoporosis, and in increasing intellectual and physical efficiency. considering the importance of nutrition education for school age children, this study was performed to determine the effect of health education based on health belief model on the knowledge, attitude and practice of the se...

A survey of the use of belief functions to quantify the beliefs held by an agent, and in particular of their interpretation in the transferable belief model.

We propose in this paper a new family of belief merging operators, that is based on a game between sources : Until a coherent set of sources is reached, at each round a contest is organized to find out the weakest sources, then those sources has to concede (weaken their point of view). This idea leads to numerous new interesting operators (depending of the exact meaning of “weakest” and “conced...