background: breast cancer remains the most common malignancy in women worldwide and is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality . mammography is as the most accurate method for early detection of breast cancer. despite evidence that regular mammography screening can reduce breast cancer mortality; many women fail to receive mammography. this study aimed to determine the factors affecting m...

background: adolescence is a sensitive period of acquiring normal and abnormal habits for all of life. the study investigates determinants of responsibility for health, spiritual health and interpersonal relations and predictive factors based on the theory of planned behavior in high school girl students in tabriz.   methods : in this cross-sectional study, 340 students were selected thorough m...

BACKGROUND Sterilization is most widely used fertility regulation method in Nepal. However, prevalence of uptake of female sterilization in central hilly region is less than the national average. The objective of the study was to explore the number and factors related to intention of married women to undergo female sterilization in rural Kathmandu which lies within central hilly region. MATER...

BACKGROUND During the course of an influenza pandemic, governments know relatively little about the possibly changing influence of government trust, risk perception, and receipt of information on the public's intention to adopt protective measures or on the acceptance of vaccination. This study aims to identify and describe possible changes in and factors associated with public's intentions dur...

background and aims: acute drug poisoning is a major public health problem in the world.the aim of this study was to investigate the trends and characteristics of acute drug poisoning and to compare that with other poisonings in gorgan, iran. methods: this descriptive cross-sectional study was done from march 2008 to march 2015. data were obtained from medical records. stata software and pearso...

BACKGROUND Smoking prevalence is higher among low socio-economic status (LSES) groups, and this difference may originate from a higher intention to smoke in childhood. This study aims to identify factors that explain differences in intention to smoke between children living in high socio-economic status (HSES) and LSES neighbourhoods. METHODS Cross-sectional data were derived from the baselin...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to determine the awareness among fifth-grade girls and boys of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), cancer, and human papillomavirus (HPV), and to determine the factors associated with intention to obtain the HPV vaccination. METHODS A quasi experimental design was employed with Korean fifth-grade students as the subjects for this study (n=117). Prior to providing...

Under the background of trend social new retail, based on narrative transmission theory, this study collects 208 samples by questionnaire, integrating media interaction and consumers’ purchase intention, analyzes conditional process brand stories affecting how to affect intention hierarchical regression method. The result shows that story has a positive impact is realized through intermediary t...

BACKGROUND In light of the growing shortage of physicians worldwide, the problem of physicians who intend to leave direct patient care has become more acute, particularly in terms of quality of care and health-care costs. METHODS A literature search was carried out following Cooper's five-stage model for conducting an integrative literature review. Database searches were made in MEDLINE, Psyc...

BACKGROUND Schizophrenia is associated with poor theory of mind (ToM), particularly in the attribution of intentions to others. It is also associated with abnormal gaze behaviours and contextual processing. This study investigated to what extent impaired ToM in patients with schizophrenia is related to abnormal processing of social context. METHODS We evaluated ToM using a nonverbal intention...