Mousa Mahdizadeh; Mehrosaadat Mahdizadeh; Noshin Peyman
Volume 21, Issue 1 , March and April 2015, , Pages 164-174
Abstract
Background & objective: adolescence is one of the most valuable periodin life which is foundation of the next stage.Adolescents’sedentary lifestyle and unhealthy eating behaviors threat the present and future life in this age group. The aim of this study was to evaluate healthy lifestyle education ...
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Background & objective: adolescence is one of the most valuable periodin life which is foundation of the next stage.Adolescents’sedentary lifestyle and unhealthy eating behaviors threat the present and future life in this age group. The aim of this study was to evaluate healthy lifestyle education based on health belief model among adolescents.
Materials and methods: this interventional study was conducted on 113studentswho were selected from two schools in an educational district in Mashhadand viathe cluster sampling method. They were divided intoa case group(56) and a control one(57). datawere gathered using demographic, knowledge and performance questionnaires and also the health belief model constructs. The reliability of the questionnaires was determined by test- retest and alpha. Educational program based on health belief model was designed and implemented in four 50-minute sessions. Thedata were analyzed using SPSS software(11.5).
Results: There was observed a significant difference between after and before intervention in meanscores of knowledge (P=0.033), Performance (P=0.001) and also physical activity, puberty health, structures of health belief model include sensitive (P=0.013), intensity (P=0.008) and efficacy, perceived benefits (P0.001) and perceived barriers (P=0.001) while, there was no significant difference in the case group.
Conclusion: Health education programs which are based on health belief modelcan be effective in promoting health awareness, perceptions of cognitive and healthy lifestyle behaviors in adolescents.
Noshin Peyman; Zeynab Jelambadani
Volume 18, Issue 4 , January and February 2012, , Pages 280-287
Abstract
Background and Purpose: Eating disorders and abnormal attitudes towards eating in adolescents، especially girls، are among fundamental problems of societies. In order to make useful interventions for detecting eating disorders and attitude change at early stages، an appropriate and capable model is ...
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Background and Purpose: Eating disorders and abnormal attitudes towards eating in adolescents، especially girls، are among fundamental problems of societies. In order to make useful interventions for detecting eating disorders and attitude change at early stages، an appropriate and capable model is required. Therefore، the present study was conducted to determine the effect of Freire’s educational model on attitude change and eating disorders in students.
Methods and Materials: This quasi-experimental study was conducted on 60 female first-grade overweight high school students in 2010. They were non-randomly sampled from two high school in Mashad، Iran and were assigned into experimental and control groups. A standard questionnaire (EAT-26) was used for collecting data on eating disorders and nutritional attitude; the participants completed the questionnaire before and one month after the educational intervention. For data analysis، central tendency and dispersion indexes and independent t-test and paired t-test were used in SPSS 11.5.
Results: The mean abnormal attitude score of the experimental group reduced from 8.53 before intervention to 4.16 after intervention (p