background family-centered empowerment of drug and stimulant users is an effective program for a better response to treatment, prevention of treatment adverse effects, and promotion quality of life (qol) and lifestyle in the process of discontinuing drug abuse. objectives this study aimed to determine the effects of educational intervention, based on family-centered empowerment and pender's hea...

background and aim: one of the main strategies for keeping health is having healthy life style. due to important role of adolescent health in community health promotion, this study aimed to determine health promoting life style in female adolescents of high schools and its associated factors in mashhad, iran. methods: this cross- sectional study was conducted on 810 girls ranging in ages from 1...

objective: previous studies have shown that menopausal women are more likely to experience depression. however, there are few studies that investigated the cognitive mechanism that may have a role in developing depression in menopausal women. thus, the present study aimed to investigate the mediating role of life satisfaction in the relation between subjective evaluation of stressors and depres...

Background: Are dietary patterns, substantiated by biomarkers, associated with semen quality? Materials and Methods: In 161 men of subfertile couples undergoing in vitro fertilization treatment in a tertiary referral clinic in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, we assessed nutrient intakes and performed principal component factor analysis to identify dietary patterns. Total homocysteine (tHcy), folate...

aim : the aim of this was to investigate some clinical profiles and lifestyle changes in stoma patients. background : stoma patients experienced multiple complications due to their ostomy formation. patients and methods : a cross-sectional study performed on 102 random samples of stoma patients. any patient with adequate physical and mental capability to participate and having had an ostomy in ...

BACKGROUND Media utilization has been identified as an important determinant of tobacco use. We examined the association between self-reported tobacco use and frequency of mass media utilization by women and men in nine low-to middle-income sub-Saharan African countries. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Data for the study came from Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in Burkina Faso, Ethio...

Health promotion is an important nursing intervention. Research has long shown that one’s lifestyle affects health. A health-promoting lifestyle has been described as a multi-dimensional pattern of self-initiated actions that maintain or enhance one’s level of wellness, self-actualization, and fulfillment. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the health promotion/life style activities of u...

Media play an important role in the reception of health risks; thus, media competence is important for enhancing the risk competence of patients and consumers. In addition to life-long health education, risk competence particularly requires careful handling of health information because, at present, the key problem is not the lack of sufficient information on health topics but the quality of su...