background: smoking among youths is a main public health concern, and detecting predictors of smoking is essential for designing preventive programs. any interventional program should plan with highlighting on behavioral change models and based on operative interventional program. so, this study aimed to investigate school-based smoking prevention programs for middle school students in nowshahr...

The consistent effect of education on volunteering has been explained in a number of ways. In this study we test the hypothesis that perceived control beliefs are partly responsible. Using two waves of panel data from National Survey of Midlife in the United States we estimated cross-lagged structural equation models in which education is positioned as the exogenous variable and perceived contr...

Background and Objectives: Studies of the relationship between personal qualities and job consequences usually find poor and inconsistent correlations. It is suggested that the reason may lie in ignorance of some modifying factors mediating such relationship. The perceived control has attracted much attention as a candidate factor. This study aimed to examine the mediating role of the perceived...

background: osteoporosis is one of the most common metabolic bone diseases. the purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of a walking education program based on the health belief model (hbm) on osteoporosis among women.   material and methods in this quasi-experimental research design, 120 patients (60 experimental and 60 control),who were registered with the health centers in fasa ci...

background: nutritional education is a necessity in diabetic patients to better control of the disease. the aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of educational programs to promote nutritional knowledge in type ii diabetes patients using the health belief model (hbm). methods: this was a quasi-experimental study which was performed among type ii diabetic patients referred to rura...

background: incidence of asthma in adolescents leads to variations in family status, roles and interaction with peers for them, which could be a source of stress and psychological tensions in them. therefore, the present study was conducted to investigate the effect of orem’s self-care model on perceived stress in adolescents with asthma. methods: in this semi-experimental study conducted from ...

background: adolescence is a sensitive period of acquiring normal and abnormal habits for all of life. the study investigates determinants of responsibility for health, spiritual health and interpersonal relations and predictive factors based on the theory of planned behavior in high school girl students in tabriz.   methods : in this cross-sectional study, 340 students were selected thorough m...