background: educational interventions to promote physical activity are one of the health priorities. a theoretical approach to promote and maintain physical activity is the transtheoretical model (ttm). this research was conducted to determine the effects of this model on students' physical activity habits in 2011. methods: this quasi-experimental study was conducted on 200 students in two grou...

background: the overcrowded hospital is an unsafe one. overcrowding the emergency department (ed) results in increased patient suffering, prolonged waiting time, deteriorating level of service, and on occasion, a worsened medical condition or even death. objectives: this study proposes a strategy to overcome ed overcrowding. materials and methods: the proportion of acute area admitted patients ...

background & aim: nausea and vomiting during pregnancy (nvp) is among the most common problems in pregnant women. as explained in guidelines, combination of non-drug treatments, including nutritional modifications, lifestyle changes, and use of alternative medicine for the treatment of nvp has been less highlighted. the present study was performed with the aim of determining the effect of an ed...

Cogent explanations are an indispensable means of providing new information and an essential component of effective education. Beyond this, we argue that there is tremendous untapped potential in using explanations to motivate behavior change. In this article we focus on health interventions. We review four case studies that used carefully tailored explanations to address gaps and misconception...

Disease control is of paramount importance in public health, with infectious disease extinction as the ultimate goal. Although diseases may go extinct due to random loss of effective contacts where the infection is transmitted to new susceptible individuals, the time to extinction in the absence of control may be prohibitively long. Intervention controls are typically defined on a deterministic...

objectives this study aimed to examine the effect of a hospital-based educational program based on the constructs of the health belief model (hbm) on self-care behaviors of patients with hf. methods this controlled quasi-experimental study consisted of 84 patients with hf (42 patients in an intervention group and 42 in a control group) who were admitted to two large, specialized, referral hospi...

background: to examine the effect of nutritional education on children’s breakfast patterns methods: a kindergarten based nutrition intervention was started in september 2001 among 8 kindergartens in hefei with a total of 2,012 children aged 4-6 years and their parent pairs. results: monthly nutrition education sessions were held over two semesters in kindergartens part of the intervention arm....

extractthis study have been done in the american university of beirut medical center for recognizing the skills of nurses in counseling for facilitating mental and physical rehabilitation of war disabled. this center was admitted veterans from ten years ago. this study showed important role of nurses in rehabilitation persons who were disabled from war conflict, terrible events related to war, ...