epidemiological studies and clinical findings have shown an association between trauma and dissociation; dissociative experiences are also more prevalent among select populations such as substance dependent individuals and criminal offenders. in the present non-systematic review, we explored the association between trauma, dissociation, and high-risk behaviors. we aimed to find if the presence ...

background & aim: aids is one of the major public health challenges all over the world. perceived risk is a significant predictor of high-risk behaviors related to aids. women constitute more than half of the hiv patients, and the rate of female sex workers with aids is more than the rest of female population. therefore, the present study aimed to evaluate aids risk perception and its related f...

background: physicians are one of the most important groups directly associated with public health and their health related lifestyle has a significant impact on their patient’s behaviors. several studies showed that the majority of medical students did not have appropriate and healthy behaviors. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of risky lifestyle knowledge and behaviors am...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether and how parents' and adolescent siblings' weight and weight-related behaviors are correlated. Results will inform which family members may be important to include in adolescent obesity prevention interventions. METHODS Data from two linked population-based studies, EAT 2010 and F-EAT, were used for cross-sectional analyses. Parents (n = 58; 91% females; mean age =...

There is a general lack of research addressing the motivations behind parental use of various feeding practices. Therefore, the present work aims to extend the current literature on parent-child feeding interactions by integrating the traditional developmental psychological perspective on feeding practices with elements of Regulatory Focus Theory (RFT) derived from the field of motivational psy...

Neurons in the brainstem are the input for a neural circuit that integrates nutrient signals to control feeding behavior.

BACKGROUND Research concerning children's emotional eating behavior has shown its negative impact on weight-related problems. Taking the model of Birch and Davison (2001) into account, we focus on the role of maternal feeding behavior on the association between emotional eating of the mother and the child. METHODS 482 mothers and their children participated in this cross-sectional study. The ...

background: this study aims to assess the frequency of some hygienic behaviors that is, tooth brushing and hand‑washing, in iranian school students at national level. methods: this nationwide study was conducted in 2011-2012 among 14,880 elementary, secondary and high school students who were selected by random cluster stratified multistage sampling from 30 provinces in iran. we used the global...

There is a nearly 10,000-year history of human presence in the western Gulf of Alaska, but little understanding of how human foragers integrated into and impacted ecosystems through their roles as hunter-gatherers. We present two highly resolved intertidal and nearshore food webs for the Sanak Archipelago in the eastern Aleutian Islands and use them to compare trophic roles of prehistoric human...

This study examined whether the longitudinal links between mothers' use of spanking and children's externalizing behaviors are moderated by family race/ethnicity, as would be predicted by cultural normativeness theory, once mean differences in frequency of use are controlled. A nationally representative sample of White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian American families (n = 11,044) was used to test ...