Background: Risky sexual behaviors expose people to sexual transmitted diseases. These behaviors are usually common among homeless people, so educational programs would help them to avoid high risk behaviors. Understanding STD awareness and the common types of risky behaviors among homeless people would provide a good context for designing appropriate educational plans. Aim: This study was perf...

Introduction: The issue of social harms and their prevalence among adolescents has become one of the main concerns of families, health system, education and society. The aim of this study was to identify and rank the relationship to high-risk behaviors among students based on the method of hierarchical analysis. Materials and Methods: This research was conducted in a survey method on 60 adolesc...

This study aimed to examine the effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction on impulsivity and High Risk Behaviors in adolescents. The study was a quasi-experimental design with pre-posttest experimental and control groups. The statistical population included all high school female students in the academic year was 96-1395. The sample consisted of 32 students, who were selected with available...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of the meaning of education and academic engagement in predicting high-risk behaviors in adolescents. The research method was descriptive-correlational-predictive. The statistical population of this study consisted of all female secondary school students in Ardabil during the academic year of 2017-2018. 200 of them were selected by multi-sta...

The main purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of rational-emotional behavior therapy (REBT) on behavioral activation/inhibition systems (BAS / BIS), high-risk sexual behaviors, and experimental avoidance in adolescents with a history of running away from home. The research method was quasi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design with the control group. The statistical ...