background: this study aimed to assess lifestyle behavioral management in patients with knee osteoarthritis among iranian patients up to 6 months. settings and design.   methods and material: in this educational controlled trial study, 130 eligible participants took part in control group (n = 66) and received just prescribed medications, or intervention group (n=64) who received the lifestyle b...

conclusions the nutritional behavior of university students was poor. therefore, it is essential to encourage young people, including university students to enrich their diets with milk, beans, fruit, and vegetables to decrease the risks of nutrition related disorders. results from a total of 210 postgraduate students 110 were females, and 100 males. no significant correlation was observed betw...

background: nutrition in childhood has a significant role in current and adulthood health. recent studies have shown that the mother’s life-style has an important role in the methods used by mother to feed child, child’s diet and body mass index (bmi). this study paper aimed to investigate the association between mother’s weight efficacy life-style (wel) with feeding practices and diet in child...

background: health-promoting lifestyle is one of the determination criteria for health factors and the prevention of health-threatening factors. according to the available statistics, 53% of deaths are related to lifestyle. the aim of this study was to evaluate health-promoting lifestyles in medical students of rafsanjan university of medical sciences (rums), rafsanjan, iran. materials and meth...

background: the role of individual healthy behaviors, like physical activity, nutrition and stress management, on reduction of the rate of disease mortality and morbidity is well known. the aim of this study is to determine the healthy life styles of teachers in district 4 of esfahan, iran, in 2010. methods: the participants of this cross-sectional study were 96 teachers in  district 4, selecte...

background the feeding importance of child in first two years of life and mental damage caused by malnutrition during this period is obvious. however the mother's lifestyle and long-term effects on the health of the mother and infant during breastfeeding period should not be neglected. therefore, this study aimed to determine the relationship between the demographic characteristics and lif...

obesity and overweight have become increasingly a major public health problem across the world. this study aimed at exploring the effects of motivational interviewing on weight efficacy lifestyle among women with obesity and overweight. a single-blind randomized clinical trial study was conducted on 100 overweight and obese women who attended a nutrition clinic. the samples were selected based ...

background : multiple sclerosis (ms) is an autoimmune disease with unknown factor. the prevalence and incidence rate of this disease had an upward trend in many regions in the world such as middle east and consequently in iran over the recent years. as the risk factors of this increased trend and high-prevalence is unknown in iran, the current study has been designed to evaluate the correlation...

We examine whether the genetic basis for religious involvement is common to the genetic basis for drug use/abuse, helping to explain the inverse relationship between religiosity and drug use. To test this hypothesis, we analyzed data on 2,537 young adult siblings participating in Wave III of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health on whom both genetic characteristics and religious ...