patients and methods the current quasi-experimental study was conducted on 96 eligible females, who were allocated either to the case or the control group and were selected from homes in the border of zahedan city (southeast of iran) during 2010. convenience sampling by door-to-door visits was used for finding eligible cases. a ttm-based self-administrated family planning questionnaire was used...

conclusions according to the results, interventions based on socioecological model can positively affect women’s physical activity. results the results indicated insignificant differences between the two groups in terms of perceived social, physical, and political support and also with regard to level of physical activity before intervention. however after the intervention and according to inde...

background: prostate cancer has been reported as the second leading cause of cancer death among men in 2013. prevention and early detection of cancer are considered as critical factors in controlling the disease and increasing the survival of patients. therefore, we aimed to investigate the effect of health belief model (hbm)-based education on knowledge and prostate cancer screening behaviors ...

backgroundnutrition behaviors of adolescent girls is of serious health concerns. although nutrition education interventions in iran have met with some success, most of them could not promote nutrition behavioral changes. the aim of our study is to determine a school-based nutrition education intervention to improve adolescents’ nutrition behaviors and behavioral mediators based on the social co...

objective: previous suicide interventional studies are controversial in their results. the present study compared brief intervention and contact (bic), with treatment as usual (tau) in their influence on the repetition of suicide attempts 6-month after the index suicide attempt. methods: adults who had attempted suicide were assigned two groups randomly: 311 in the tau and 321 in the bic. the b...

background: cervical cancer considered as second most common cancer after breast cancer in the world and 18 percent of total deaths in women are due to cervical cancer. cervical cancer is a preventable disease and early detection of the disease could improve  the quality of its treatment. the pap smear test is an effective screening method for diagnosis of cervical cancer. the aim of present st...