OBJECTIVE To examine the relationships between physical and social self-concepts, motivational interviewing (MI), and nutrition assessment skills with dimensions of counseling self-efficacy. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTING Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) clinics. PARTICIPANTS Sixty-five WIC nutritionists. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Counsel...

test is the majority of student’s life and test anxiety is an experience that has commonly been observed during exams. in fact, anxiety is a vague feeling and very uncomfortable that so often considered to be associated with one or more physical sense, for instance, the empty feeling of heart palpitations, headache and sweating. the purpose of this study is to investigate and to compare the sel...

BACKGROUND The importance of increasing adolescence girl's level of physical activity is recognized as a priority for having a healthy lifestyle. However, adolescent girls especially Iranian, are at high risk for physical inactivity. Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) is a successful theory to explain physical activity behavior. The aim of this study was to determine the predictors of physical activ...

BACKGROUND Self-efficacy has been determined to be a strong predictor of who will engage in physical activity. We aimed to evaluate the associations between self-efficacy to perform physical activity, self-reported leisure-time physical activity and cardiovascular events in a population-based cohort of middle-aged Swedish men with no previous cardiovascular disease, or treatment with cardiovasc...

Objective: The theory of self-efficacy is based on the assumption that people’s beliefs about their abilities and talents have a favorable effect on their actions. It is the most important determinant of behavior. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between Emotional Intelligence (EI) and self-efficacy in type II diabetes (T2DM) patients. Materials and Methods: In this analytical ...

One of the consequences of living in this century of machine and technology development is poverty in movement and reduction in physical activity. This study aimed to examine the predictive factors of physical activity in health volunteers based on the structures of Pender's health promotion model. This study was perform 80 health volunteers working at urban and rural health centers that were s...

objective: the present study was carried out to investigate the effects of group narrative therapy on enhancing self-esteem and self-efficacy of 20 iranian male orphan adolescents (13-18 years of age). methods: participants were randomly assigned to the experimental and control group. then, a 10-week group therapy was performed. outcome measures included the rosenberg selfesteem inventory and t...

background & aim : perceived self-efficacy could lead to self-management behaviors among diabetic patients and the diabetes management self-efficacy scale (dmses) assesses the extent to which diabetic patients are confident that they can manage diabetes. however, the iranian version of dmses was not available. the objective of this study was the translation and psychometric evaluation of the ir...

background: the main purpose of medical education system is that the students achieve the highest levels of learning and professional competency. training of skilled physicians is based on three domains including educational planning, environment, and psychological situation. methods: our study is a descriptive-analysis, conducted on 119 students including medical, nursing and midwifery groups ...