the carpet industry developed various types of respiratory and musculoskeletal disorders, eyesight problems,  carpal tunnel syndrome and skin problems. healthy behavior of carpet weavers is not in a desirable level. we recommended appropriate interventions such as health service, education improvement and advocacy for promoting healthy behaviors of carpet weavers.

BACKGROUND Recent research has begun to recognize the important influence of literacy levels and how they affect health and wellbeing, especially in older adults. Our study focuses on health and financial literacy, two domains of literacy which previous research has suggested may be significantly related to health and wellbeing. Our study examines the relation of health and financial literacy w...

The purposes of this study were to examine differences in symptoms, aging-stereotyped beliefs about management of symptoms, and health-promoting behaviors depending on a diagnosis of osteoarthritis and to investigate the associations between symptoms, aging-stereotyped beliefs, and health-promoting behaviors in 171 older Korean women. Compared to older women without osteoarthritis, those with o...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Nursing students provide health services and their behavior may affect the clinical services that they provide to clients. In addition, Health-promoting behaviors among nursing students may affect the quality of patient education. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the relationship between health-promoting behaviors and certain demographic characteristics ...

health education in schools is one of the most effective ways of promoting health in a society. studies have shown the effectiveness of health interventions aimed at improving students' knowledge, attitude, and behaviors about health issues. the aim of this study was to evaluate health issues in primary school textbooks in iran.in school year 2010-2011, the contents of all primary school textbo...

introduction: preventive measures such as training and awareness and prevention skills for personal protection in the musculoskeletal areas are one of the most important strategies in health care systems. the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of an educational intervention based on health belief model (hbm) on promoting preventive behavior of musculoskeletal problems in female afg...

Background: With a focus on people’s beliefs, health belief model (HBM) attempts to define and promote the performances of different population groups. The current study aimed determine effect education, based HBM, promoting oral behaviors adolescent girls in Shahrekord. Methods: This interventional was conducted female students junior high schools Shahrekord during educational year 2018-2019. ...

This cross-sectional research study explored differences in health-promoting behavior and resilience among three groups of chronic kidney disease patients (high-risk, early chronic kidney disease; early CKD and pre-end stage renal disease; pre-ESRD) treated at the Nephrology outpatient clinic in northern Taiwan. A total of 150 CKD outpatients were interviewed using structured questionnaires inc...

BACKGROUND Advances in coronary artery surgery have reduced patient morbidity and mortality. Nevertheless, patients still have to face physical, psychological, and social problems after discharge from hospital. OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to determine the efficacy of Pender's health promotion model in predicting cardiac surgery patients' lifestyles in Iran. METHODS This cross...