The aims of the present study were to evaluate treated and untreated subjects' attitudes towards orthodontic treatment and to examine possible determinants of these attitudes. It was hypothesized that orthodontically treated individuals would differ from untreated respondents in their attitude towards orthodontists and orthodontic treatment, and that female subjects would have a more positive a...

Background and Purpose: Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) is the major cause of limitation in adults' life. But it can be prevented by controlling its risk factors, modifying life style and educating the population about general health. Besides, health education is one of the important issues about changing life style. Nurses play an important role in health education .Thus this study was performed...

Modernization is a socio-cultural transition process. This systemic transformation mechanism involving principles, norms, systems, and frameworks. The mentality, concept, views, behaviour of man are therefore oriented to move in that direction. term modernization employed not only identify shifts nation's material culture, but also its belief system, beliefs, way life general. It widely held ed...

The accurate planning and management for sustainable agriculture results in appropriate behaviors ofindividuals towards sustainability through changes happened in individuals’ knowledge and attitudesof sustainability. A survey of natural resources and agricultural researchers (N = 85) was conducted inIranian Province of ILAM to explore their attitudes of sustainable agriculture and to identify ...

Suicide-preventive training has shown to influence attitudes. This study aimed at investigating what impact other factors than knowledge might have on attitudes towards work with suicidal patients and suicide prevention. In 2007, 500 health-care staff working in a psychiatric clinic in Stockholm received a questionnaire with items concerning work with suicidal patients to which 358 (71.6%) resp...

INTRODUCTION The number of primary care physicians in the United States continues to lag behind the number of uninsured people. There has been a growing demand for medical students to improve their self-efficacy, comfortableness, attitude, and interest in working with the underserved and in primary care. This study aims to discern whether volunteering at a student-run, free healthcare clinic ha...

introduction: tuberculosis (tb) is one of the most important causes of mortality and morbidity in developing countries and is responsible for about 25% of all preventable deaths. therefore we aimed to assess the knowledge and attitude towards tb among guidance school in rural areas of bandarabbas in 2010. methods and materials: in this cross sectional study our samples were selected using clust...

Background Awareness of pharmacists about counterfeit drugs is necessary for health improvement in community. The purpose of the present study is to assess the knowledge and measure the professional attitude and practice of Iranian pharmacist about counterfeit drugs. In August 2008, a knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) study was performed in a national sample of 794 pharmacists who particip...