Fertility behavior based on stimuli, decision making process, and related attitudes can be considered as social behavior that occurs in a social environment. The general objective of this research is to investigate the social factors affecting the tendency towards childbearing among married women in Mazandaran province. The sample size of this study is 100 people who were selected by purposive ...

background & aim: knowledge and attitude of the nurses and midwives towards hiv/aids patients could affect the quality of care provision. thus, this study aimed to determine the relationship between knowledge, attitude, and tendency of nurses and midwives towards caring for hiv/aids patients. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted on 303 nurses and midwives at healthcare centers, aff...

objective: this survey aimed at studying the effects of socioeconomic and family factors in adolescents’ tendency towards smoking, alcohol consumption, and drug abuse. methods: using multistage sampling, 3530 high school students were selected in tehran, iran. they completed the iranian adolescents risk behavior scale questionnaire (iars) and demographic questionnaire with the main focus on the...

conclusions the results of this research have important implications regarding the attention of students’ counselors to meta-cognitive dimensions in order to prevent students’ tendency for addiction. results the rate of students’ addiction potential tendency can be predicted by having characteristics of their meta-cognition. it also appeared that among the five parameters of meta-cognition, the...