objective: lack of exercise is the fourth cause of death in the world. there is an inverse relationship between physical activity and the risk of diabetes. the aim of this study was to determine physical activity status and its related factors among type 2 diabetic patients in hamadan, west of iran. materials and methods: this analytical-observational study was performed on320 type 2 diabetic p...

background : clinical decision making as a major part of the performance of professional nursing is the distinctive factor of professional nurses and non-professional health care personnel. this study aimed to assess the relationship between the exercise and physical activity and the nurses’ collaboration in clinical decision making in al-zahra hospital, isfahan, iran. methods: th descriptive-c...

despite the interest in sport and physical activities in iran, its role in spending the leisure time of various groups in the society is insignificant. therefore, the aim of this research is to study and identify the patterns of spending the leisure time with emphasize on physical activities and sport at ilam university. this study is a descriptive and a kind of field study. the statistical soc...

  Background The health promoting behaviors determine the health status in the present and future. The medical students, as developers and providers of professional care, play a key role in the promotion of health. Hence, determining the health promoting behaviors among them is of the essence. The present study aimed to investigate the health promoting behaviors among the students at Kermanshah...

Recent technological advances in wireless communications, mobile computation, and sensor technologies have enabled the development of low-cost, miniature, lightweight, intelligent wireless sensor devices or “motes”. A collection of these devices can be placed strategically on the key positions of the human body and connected by means of a wireless network to form a Wireless Body Area Network (W...

Computers, embedded in the “background” as well as more obtrusive artefacts (e.g. PCs, PDAs, cellular phones), play an increasingly important role in human activity. However, there are still things that most people would prefer to do “off-screen” in the physical (real) world, such as having parties, reading long text documents, or spending vacation. I argue that there exists a class of activiti...