Aziz Kamran; Gholamreza Sharifi rad; Siamak Mohebi; Heshmatollah Heidari; Sadegh Hazrati
Volume 22, Issue 5 , November and December 2015, , Pages 927-936
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Background: Nutrition is considered as the most important in hypertension control however, little information is available about the nutritional status of hypertensive patients in our country. This study was aimed to determine the predictive power of perceived benefits, barriers, self efficacy and knowledge ...
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Background: Nutrition is considered as the most important in hypertension control however, little information is available about the nutritional status of hypertensive patients in our country. This study was aimed to determine the predictive power of perceived benefits, barriers, self efficacy and knowledge from fat intake and received dietary energy.
Material and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 671 rural hypertensive patients with using multistage random sampling method in Ardabil city in 2013. Data were collected by a valid and reliable questionnaire with interview method. Nutritional data were extracted by Nutritionist 4 software and analyzed the SPSS 18 software using Pearson correlation, multiple linear regressions, ANOVA and independent T-test.
Results: the mean of total fat, saturated fat and energy were 92.1±27.1, 32.3±9.7 and 2539.4±398.9 respectively. Total fat, saturated fat and energy had a negative significant correlation with perceived benefits and self efficacy and a positive significant correlation with perceived barriers. Perceived barriers, benefits, efficacy and knowledge predicted 20.9% of the energy change variations, 32.42% of the changes in saturated fat intake and 25.7 of the change in fat intake.
Conclusions: Dietary perceptions in the framework of perceived benefits, barriers, self-efficacy and knowledge could explain of total fat and saturated fat and energy intake in acceptable range.
Sahar Sabooteh; Hossein Shahnazi; Gholamreza Sharifi rad; Akbar Hasanzadeh
Volume 21, Issue 5 , September and October 2014, , Pages 719-734
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Background and purpose: According to investigations, not considering the side effects of anxiety on a fetus, baby and pregnancy outcomes, as a result of lack of proper training and adequate information in terms of pregnancy common cares, pregnant women hypothesize anxiety as a common sense that will ...
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Background and purpose: According to investigations, not considering the side effects of anxiety on a fetus, baby and pregnancy outcomes, as a result of lack of proper training and adequate information in terms of pregnancy common cares, pregnant women hypothesize anxiety as a common sense that will be improved spontaneously. So present study was aimed at evaluating effectiveness of education on anxiety among primiparous women based on Health Belief Model (HBM).
Materials and Methods: An experimental (interventional) study matched with two randomized group. using pre-test and post-test on the 88 eligible primiparous women(n = 44 per group) was performed. Data were gathered by using a researcher made questionnaire that its validity and reliability were confirmed. Education was conducted in three sessions (1hour for each one) tailored with HBM constructs, using lectures, group discussions, inquiries, PowerPoints and booklets. Evaluation was included implementing post-test, 4 and 8 weeks after last education session. Collected data were analyzed by SPSS (ver.20) software, using fallowing methods: statistical test including Chi-square, Independent T-test and repeated measure one way analysis of variance (ANOVA), significant level was taken less than 0.05.
Results: The achieved results indicate that the averages of age, education, job status and income were not significantly different for both groups (p>0.05).In our study, the mean scores of knowledge, perceived sensitivity, perceived severity, perceived benefits and barriers, cues to action, self-efficacy and individuals performance, 4 weeks after intervention (p
Abedin Saghafipour; Moharram Karami Jovshan; Gholamreza Sharifirad; Mehdi Asadi; Ali Rasouli; siamak Mohebbi
Volume 21, Issue 4 , September and October 2014, , Pages 540-549
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Background: Although vegetables have important role to our diets but in case of infection with microbes they can act as a source of infection for variety of intestinal diseases namely cholera. Present study aimed to figure out the status of vegetable disinfection behavior and its modifiable determinants ...
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Background: Although vegetables have important role to our diets but in case of infection with microbes they can act as a source of infection for variety of intestinal diseases namely cholera. Present study aimed to figure out the status of vegetable disinfection behavior and its modifiable determinants during cholera outbreak in Qom province in 2011.
Material & Methods: In a descriptive-analytic study on 554 women (who were household-keeper), vegetable disinfection behavior and its determinants were investigated. In this study, the multistage sampling method was used. A researcher-tailored questionnaire was used to gather data. The valid and reliable questionnaire was comprised of 85 questions and was completed by subjects. Then, the collected data was analyzed by SPSS software (version 19) and using Pearson correlation coefficient (CI=95%).
Results: The mean and standard error (SE) of age of subjects were about 31.24+-8.45 Women’s knowledge score on use of vegetable disinfectants had a mean and SE of 71.5+-11.65. Altogether, only 15.99% of women (87 persons) reported a complete disinfection of vegetables. The strongest relationship was found between Vegetable disinfection behavior and the perceived barriers that based on Pearson correlation coefficient was a significant but reverse relationship. (r=-0.567, p=0.019).
Conclusion: Our findings showed that house-keeping women had a poor behavior regarding vegetable disinfection. Consequently, poorly-disinfected vegetables are still a prominent health problem respecting spread of intestinal diseases especially cholera.
Siyamak Mohebi; Yaser Tabaraie; Gholamreza Sharifirad; Mohammad Matlabi; Marziyeh Shahsiah
Volume 18, Issue 2 , July and August 2011, , Pages 82-90
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Background and Purpose: Lower levels of academic anxiety can motivate the educational improvement but higher degrees can be a disturbance in concentration، attention، storage، recall and educational failure. Since it affects millions of students worldwide، the present study aimed to determine the ...
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Background and Purpose: Lower levels of academic anxiety can motivate the educational improvement but higher degrees can be a disturbance in concentration، attention، storage، recall and educational failure. Since it affects millions of students worldwide، the present study aimed to determine the effect of assertiveness training on reducing anxiety level in the pre-university students in Gonabad، Iran in 2008.
Methods and Materials: In this randomized clinical trail، all pre-university students of Gonabad، Iran were invited to the study; and finally 89 students were randomly assigned into experimental and control groups. Data collection instruments included a 3-part questionnaire for recording demographic، academic anxiety and assertiveness (Rathus questionnaire with a validity of 0.83). The intervention for the experimental group was a 5-session course of assertiveness training based on PRECEDE model and one session for parents and teachers to help support the intervention program. Post-test was given top both groups 8 weeks after the last training session. The obtained data were analyzed in SPSS 16 using paired and independent t-test، chi-square and correlation coefficient.
Results: The results showed that anxiety levels and assertiveness in the target group were moderate to high (18.14 and 108 respectively); a negative but significant relationship was found between these two factors (r =-0.69، p < 0.001). Also، the anxiety levels of the study decreased significantly، so that their anxiety score lowered from 18.87 to 8.12 (P