background maturity and its related sexual and mental changes are one of the most important events in the life of every individual. the purpose of this study was to determine the effect of puberty health education based on health belief model on health behaviors and preventive among students boy first secondary school in marivan city in 2015. materials and methods this research is an experiment...

background: smoking is one of the most common causes of premature.death. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of education using health belief model in the prevention of smoking in high school students of zahedan. methods: in this quasi-experimental study, 380 students selected through randomized cluster sampling method and randomized in two case and control groups. the data col...

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...

OBJECTIVES To investigate mothers' awareness of their children's weight problem, and to evaluate the impact of an educational intervention on improving mothers' recognition of obesity in their children. METHODS Twelve primary schools from Tehran, Iran, were randomly chosen. Obese children were selected, and 300 mothers participated in the study. A questionnaire was completed by the mothers, w...

BACKGROUND To improve effectiveness of future screen behaviour interventions, one needs to know whether an intervention works via the proposed mediating mechanisms and whether the intervention is equally effective among subgroups. Parental regulation is identified as a consistent correlate of screen behaviours, but prospective evidence as well as the mediation role of parental regulation is lar...

School-based interventions have always been a mainstay of drug prevention policy. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, it is widely recognised that significant changes in social relationships and learning environment during adolescence are important factors in determining the initiation of drug use. Given that most adolescents spend a large proportion of their daily time at school, it is lo...

please cite this article as: sohrabi mr, davoudi-monfared e, tayefi b, hajihashemi z, sajjadi e. the effect of regular physical activity on exercise tolerance: a school-based intervention. novel biomed 2013;1(2):34-38. objectives: the main purpose of this study was to assess the effects of daily physical activity on exercise tolerance ability using the six minute walk test in healthy female stu...