Iranian Journal of Health Education and Health Promotion
Year:2018 | Volume:6 | Issue:2 |Papers Count:11

Background and Objective: one of the major causes of child mortality is road traffic injuries. Police-assistant students are the students, who receive education on basic and simple contents of road traffic incidents. This study was conducted in order to investigate the performance of police-assistant male students comparing with the other students in Hamadan, concerning the prevention of road traffic injuries.Methods: In this cross-sectional study two groups of boy-students in twelve schools including 184 police-assistant students in six schools and 184 non- policeassistant students in other six schools were selected randomly. In order to collect data a researcher-made questionnaire was used. Data analysis was done using SPSS 16 and chisquare test.Results: The mean and standard deviation of knowledge in the police-assistant group were 0.686 and 0.178 respectively and were 0.718 and 0.15 respectively in the other students group, showing there was no significant difference between the two groups regarding knowledge. There was no significant difference between the two groups in terms of the eleven behavioral items, expected from police-assistant students. Conclusion: There was no significant difference in the knowledge and even the behavioral items of those students who helped traffic police in comparison to those who did not help the traffic police and more proper training is necessary to improve the level of knowledge and performance of police-assistant students.

Background and Objective: Health promoting behaviors is one of the most important factors in the physical and mental outcomes of cancer patients. The Current study was conducted in order to determination of the role of health beliefs and Illness Perception in predicting Health Promoting Behaviors of patients with cancer.Methods: In this cross sectional study, 125 cancer patients, hospitalized in the Hematology section of Imam Khomeini hospital in Ardebil in the autumn of 2015 that were selected by convenience sampling, participated. For collecting data, the Illness Perception questionnaire, the Health Belief indexes and the Health- Promoting Lifestyle Profile were used. Gathered data were analyzed via Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis using SPSS19.Results: The results showed that the Health promoting behaviors in cancer patients positively correlated to the General Health Threat (r=-0.18, P<0.05), the Perceived vulnerability (r=-0.33, P<0.001), the Perceived intensity (r=-0.30, P<0.001) and the Self-Helping benefits (r=-0.19, P<0.05). Among the Illness Perception components, the Health Promoting Behaviors have a positive relationship with the Acute timeline (r=-0.52, P<0.001), the Periodic timeline (r=-0.31, P< 0/001), the Outcomes of disease (r=-0.31, P<0.001) and the Emotional representations (r= -0.35, P<0.001) but have a negative relationship with Self-Control (r=0.35, P<0.001). Also, multiple regression analysis showed that 23% of the variance of the Health Promoting Behaviors is explained with the Health Beliefs and 39% of that is explained by the Illness Perception.Conclusion: The results of this study indicate that the beliefs about the situation and the outcomes of the disease and the quality of the Illness Perception in cancer patients have a role in their tendency for doing the Health promoting behaviors.

Background and Objective: With the onset of adulthood, the rate of high-risk behaviors in individuals rises. Research has shown that preventive training schedules reduces the incidence of high-risk behaviors. The purpose of this study was to investigate Effectiveness of Drug Use and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) Prevention Package on Drug Use and High Risk Behaviors Reduction among College Students of Islamic Azad University, Roudehen Branch.Methods: The study sample was composed of all students in different grades. The sampling method of research had two stages. First, 384 students were selected according to Krejcie and Morgan chart, using stratified random sampling method; they answered to Risky Behaviors questionnaire. Then 15 participants were randomly assigned to the experimental group and 15 participants to the control group. Using risky behavior questionnaire a pre-test was performed for both groups. Then the experimental group participated in 12 session (each session 90 minutes) of drug use and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome prevention workshop; the control group remained on a waiting list. At the end of training sessions and one month follow up, both groups were tested again. Data was analyzed using repeated measures design.Results: The results showed that the variable scores of tendency to drug use, sexual risk behaviors, anti-social behavior and suicidal thoughts in the post-test and follow-up in experimental group was significantly lower than the control group. So we can conclude that the training package of drug use and AIDS prevention and prevention is effective in drug use and risky behavior reduction.Conclusion: It can be concluded that the drug use and acquired immune deficiency syndrome Prevention Package can be effective in reducing drug use and high-risk behaviors.

Background and Objective: Overweight is a health problem in every society. The current research has aimed at investigating the effectiveness of emotion regulation skills training on self-control, eating styles and body mass index in the overweight students. Methods: This study was a semi-experimental study with a pre-test, post-test, and follow-up design. The statistical population included all overweight female students of Payame Noor University of Rezvanshahr. The samples of this research was 34 persons, who had overweight and randomly divided into experimental and control groups (17 persons in each group). To collect data, the self-control questionnaire and the Dutch eating behavior questionnaire were used. Also, BMI was calculated by dividing weight (kg) by squared height (m2). Emotion regulation training was conducted during 12 sessions in experimental group while the control group did not receive any training. Data was analyzed using repeated measures analysis of variance by SPSS23. Results: The results showed that mean scores of self-control, eating styles and BMI, after emotion regulation training, were significantly different in experimental and control groups (P<0.01) and this difference also remained in the follow-up phase (P<0.01). In other words, emotion regulation training leads to an increase in the mean of self-control scores and a decrease in the average score of eating styles and body mass index in the experimental group compared to the control group. Conclusion: Emotion regulation skills training has an impact on self-control, eating styles, and body mass index. Therefore, it is suggested that this intervention applies for overweight and obesity treatment.

Background and Objective: Hundreds of millions of people affected from natural and man-made disasters in the world and about 80 percent of these people are women and children. Women and girls for various social, economic, cultural and health reasons are more vulnerable in times of disaster. This study aimed to investigate the impact of displacement on women's mental and social health.Methods: This research is an analytical review of articles that was studied by searching articles in Iranian databases: SID, Magiran and Irandoc, and foreign databases: Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed, Google Scholar and by using of keywords such as: Psychological vulnerability, mental health, women in disasters, refugees, disasters and their possible combinations. Results: According to the different needs of women in disaster such as deprivation in access to health services, prenatal care, specific health concerns, forcing in nutrition of children, the risk of sexual violence, sexually transmitted diseases, emotional and economic dependence and difficulty in social interactions, the vulnerability of this group in terms of displacement can be classified in five dimensions (1) health, (2) self-care, (3) livelihoods, (4) social capital and (5) social support.Conclusion: In disasters, cultural barriers, physical health problems, communication barriers, language and social and economic problems are the most important struggles of women that lead to mental disorders. Therefore, programs should be designed related to prevention, preparedness and response based on women’s needs and challenges with them participating; it is important that sufficient political and economic support from governments and involved organizations in these programs will be allocated.

Background and Objective: Aging is a sensitive period of human life and attention to the issues and needs of this era is a social necessity. Exercise is one of the issues that affects the elderly people's lives. Exercise plays an important role in the physical and mental health of elderly people. According to the importance of the subject, the aim of this study is identification of factors affecting the participation of Iranian elderly people in sporting activities.Methods: The statistical population of the study is experts in the field of ageing sports. The sampling was done purposefully. The data collection tool was a semistructured interview. After 14 interviews the researcher reached a theoretical saturation. The collected data, was analyzed using qualitative content analysis method. Results: 2 themes and 12 subthemes were emerged from data analysis that included individual factors (8 subthemes) and organizational factors (four subthemes). These themes were separated into 12 subthemes: social motives, physical fitness motives, medical motives, agent of pleasure and relaxation, receiving incentives, elderly people’s knowledge, needs of elderly people, promotional methods, organizational policies, places and facilities and sports programs.Conclusion: According to research findings, it is suggested to managers that planning for the participation of the elderly people in sporting activities must be considered along with the motivation for participation, individual factors and organizational factors, in order to be more effective.

Background and Objective: Diabetes is a chronic illness which has serious physical and mental complication. Physical activity is one of the most important factors in preventing the mental complications of chronic illnesses. This study was performed to evaluate the effect of designed program of physical activity based on Pender health promotion model on type 2 diabetic middle-aged women’s mental health. Methods: This was a quasi-experimental study carried out on 102 diabetic middle aged women referring to Diabetes Assembly of Varamin randomly put in two groups of case and control in 2016. The tools of study were demographic and Mental Health Middle-aged Woman (MHMW) questionnaire. Program of physical activity based on Pender health promotion model was accomplished for the women in the case group. At the beginning of study and two month after the intervention, mental health of both case and control group were evaluated. The data were analyzed using SPSS16, chi-square, t-test and Mann-Whitney tests.Results: After the intervention, the score of mental health in case group was 188.80 ±16.51 and in control group was 162.82±15.05; there was meaningful difference between them (P<0.001). And promotion in mental health of case group was 24.6±6.8 and in control group was 0.51±4.3; it indicated meaningful difference between them (P<0.001).Conclusion: The results showed that the designed program of physical activity based on health promotion model has a positive effect on the increasing of diabetic middle-aged women’s mental health.

Background and Objective: Body image concern is one of the challenges in adolescence and teenage period that can have serious and comprehensive damages. The puropose of this was to predict the body image concern based on mindfulness, experiential avoidance and metacognition beliefs among high school children. Methods: The study was descriptive - correlation. The statistical population concluded all of high school students (boys and girls) in Kermanshah city in academic year 2016-2017, that among those was selected a sample with 360 people, In the end, 310 people were analyzed. The used tools were including body image concern, mindfulness, experiential avoidance and metacognition beliefs questionnaires. Pearson correlation coefficient and multivariate regression analysis was used to data analyses.Results: The results showed that there is significance relationship between body image concern and mindfulness, experiential avoidance and metacognition beliefs (P<0.001) and these variables together can predict 32% of changes of body image concern at the level less than 0.001. By considering the subscales, the predictor variables in the regression model all predict 46% of the percentage change in body image at less than 0.001.Conclusion: Due to the role of mindfulness, experiential avoidance and metacognition beliefs in body image concern prediction, it is suggested that advisers and therapists consider this components in their programs.

Background and Objective: Achieving adequate asthma control is one of the primary goals in the management of this disease. There are limited data on the effect of the exercise training on asthma control and the relationship between Physiological and Psychological Parameters changes induced by exercise with asthma control. So the aim of this study was to determine the efficacy of aerobic exercise program with breathing exercises on asthma control and physical - psychological Parameters of women with asthma.Methods: 24 women with mild to moderate asthma were selected and divided into two groups including experimental (n=13) and control (n=11) groups. The experimental group performed aerobic and breathing exercises in 12 weeks, three times a week. Asthma control test (ACT) and FEV1, VO2peak, resting blood pressure, depression, and Body mass index assessments were conducted at baseline and after 12 weeks of intervention, for both the exercise and control group.Results: After 12 weeks training, there was significant increase in asthma control, FEV1 and VO2peak and a significant decrease in depression and BMI in the experimental group compared to the control group (P<0.05). VO2peak, resting blood pressure, depression and BMI changes were not significantly correlated with improvement in asthma control, and there was only one significant correlation between the increase of FEV1 and improvement of asthma control (P<0.05).Conclusion: This study showed that 12 weeks of aerobic training with respiratory training can be useful in promoting physical-psychological health promotion of patients with asthma, and improvement of FEV1 caused by exercise can play an effective role in better controling of asthma.

Background and Objective: In terms of the inherent characteristics of the military career, law enforcement personnel as human resources N.A.J.A organization, face multiple occupational issues and as a result, they are more exposed to psychological vulnerability than other employees. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between self-efficacy and social support variables on quality of life of law enforcement personnel of Tabriz city.Methods: For this purpose, 350 men from law enforcement personnel of Tabriz were selected by cluster sampling. To measure variables, participants completed in selfefficacy, social support and quality of life scales. Cronbach's alpha was used to evaluate the reliability and validity of these scales, which indicated the desirability of these scales. LISEREL software was used to analyze the data. Results: Findings of the research using the path analysis method showed that the quality of life of law enforcement personnel is influenced by social support and selfefficacy. In so doing, social support positively, has a direct impact on the quality of life. Self-efficacy is also positively associated with quality of life and has been able to play a mediating role in the relationship between social support and quality of life. To evaluate the model, multiple indices including RMSEA (0.077) and GFI (0.98) were used. The results indicated that the proposed model fitted the data. Conclusion: According to findings, social support and self-efficacy improve the quality of life of law enforcement personnel.