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:مجله سلامت سالمندان
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nasser hatamzadeh department of health education and promotion, school of public health, shahid sadoughi university of medical sciences, yazd, iran
mohammad ali morowatisharifabad department of health education and promotion, school of public health, shahid sadoughi university of medical sciences, yazd, iran
fereshteh zamani-alavijeh department of health education and promotion, school of public health, isfahan university of medical sciences, isfahan, iran
hossein fallahzadeh department of biostatistics and epidemiology, school of public health, shahid sadoughi university of medical sciences, yazd, iran
mohammad hossein mosaddegh department of pharmacology and toxicology, school of pharmacy, shahid sadoughi university of medical sciences, yazd, iran
introduction: the existence of standard tools is one of the basic needs of scientists of healthy behavior for predicting health-related behaviors. the aim of the present study was to design a psychometrically sound instrument to measure the protection motivation theory constructs regarding self-medication for elderly iranians. methods: the study was conducted in spring 2016. the sample consiste...