background: parents and teachers involvement reinforce health promotion programs for children's health. objectives: the purpose of this study was to evaluate mothers’ lifestyle behavior and its association with children's oral health. materials and methods: the study was a cross sectional study on 383 children and their mothers who were selected from 6 primary schools in tehran, iran. mothers a...

introdouction: oral and dental health is viewed as one of the most important domains of public health, which is of over riding importance among mothers who, with regard to their role in maintaining their health and their children’s health, are considered one of the vulnerable groups. materials and methods: this is a cross-sectional study in which 110 pregnant mothers referring to 15 health trea...

conclusions the current study provided evidence for the utility of the belief-based model in the prediction of oral health behaviors. it could be suggested that oral health behavior can be promoted by reducing the perceived barriers and enhancing the students’ knowledge of oral and dental hygiene. background oral and dental health diseases can affect the general health of students. objectives t...

materials and methods totally, 410 students including 204 males and 206 females studying in grades 9 to 12 and aged between 15–18 years old were studied. the instruments used to collect data were a self administered demographic questionnaire and the scale of adolescent health promotion (ahp). results the mean age of participants was 16.5 (sd = 1.34) years. the mean score of adolescent health pr...

background : who focuses on developing health literacy (hl) referring to cognitive and social skills. our objectives were to develop a scale for evaluating the hl level of thai childhood overweight, and develop a path model of health behavior (hb) for preventing obesity. study design: a cross-sectional study. methods : this research used a mixed method. overall, 2,000 school students were aged ...

abstract aims: health, safety and environment is an integrated and convergence system and also a synergistic arrangement of human resources, facilities and equipment. this study aimed to determine the relationship of safety climate and perception of risk with the awareness level of hse management system among oil refineries employees. instrument & methods: this cross-sectional study was perform...

background : since risk factors of hypertension are formed during adolescent period and regarding that attitudes change occurs more easily in these ages, the present paper aimed to evaluate the impact of education based on the theory of planned behavior in hypertension prevention behaviors in female adolescent students. methods : in this quasi-experimental study, 160 girls of 12-16 yr old (80 i...

reproductive behavior of 1525 pregnant woman were studied in the time of termination of pregnancy in relation to maternal age, education, prenatal care and the number of previous pregnancies. the results show that the frequency of maternal attendance at the centers of prenatal care is significantly related to maternal education. and the total pregnancies per woman are inversely correlated with ...

background: pedestrian injuries are a significant source of mortality and disability among children and prevention of it requires educational strategies and comprehensive approaches. this study was done to determine the effect of health education based on planned behavior theory (tpb) in promotion of safe behaviors in crossing the road among students, who are in four-grade in the primary school...