Introduction: Drug addiction as one of the major challenges in human societies has many hidden aspects. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between religious attitude, locus of control and tendency to abuse in addicts and non-addicts in Isfahan. Method: The research method was descriptive-correlational and the study population was 200 men (100 addicts and 100 normal p...

This study investigated the effects of giving information and the role of individual characteristic in level of anxiety in general surgery operation patients. 112 male and female (with a mean age of 31.8) in two groups of experimental and control subjects were studied. The subjects answered to Rater Internal-External Locus of Control Scale. Then the subjects in the experimental group were given...

Introduction: Diabetes is the most common disease related to metabolism disorders with long term complications. It needs lifelong specific self-care, as it causes a promotion in quality of life and decreases disease costs. The Health Belief Model (HBM) is a psychological model that attempts to explain and predict health behaviors. This is done by focusing on the attitudes and beliefs of individ...

Introduction: Healthy lifestyle and internal documentary styles are among the variables that affect many aspects of life and play an essential role in controlling blood pressure. The purpose of this study was to predict hypertension from lifestyle, documentary style, and age in outpatients referring to public health centers in Urmia, Khoy and Mahabad. Methods: The present study is a descriptive...

Background and aims: Various factors affect the safety performance of employees and safety locus of control (SLOC) is one of the main determinants. People with an internal locus of control believe that they can control events and conditions and People with an external locus of control believe that events caused by factors such as chance, fate, environment and performance of other people. Theref...

  Background and Aim: Providing preconception care with proper education is a wholistic health care program in the field of reproductive health. In fact, iron and folic acid deficiency anemia are the common disorders worldwide that can be resulted from inadequate micronutrients intake, secondary to knowledge deficit and low perceived control of healthy behaviors. As education is an aspect of he...