ORIGINAL_ARTICLE Health Communication Campaign and Health Promotion http://hehp.modares.ac.ir/article-1-9093-en.pdf 2016-08-18 1 2 Hormoz Sanaenasab 1 Associate Professor, Department of Health Education and Health Promotion, School of Health, Baqiyatallah University of M edical Sciences (BM SU), Tehran, Iran AUTHOR Majid Rezai - Rad 2 Associate Professor, Department of M anagement, Faculty o f M anagement & Logistics, Islamic Republic of Iran Police University (IRIPU), Tehran, Iran AUTHOR
ORIGINAL_ARTICLE A Study on the Relationship between Quality of Life, Emotional Intelligence and Life Satisfaction among Students Aim: Happiness is a very important issue in the life of every human, which is influenced by many closely-related variables. The purpose of the present study is to explore the relationship of quality of life, emotional intelligence and life satisfaction among the students of Zahedan University, Iran. Methods: This descriptive-analytic study was done on 204 students (101 males & 103 females) by using census method. Research tools were quality of life, emotional intelligence and life satisfaction scales. These are valid and reliable scales for use in psychological studies. Data were analyzed using Pearson’s correlation and T-tests in SPSS software. Findings: The research findings showed that emotional intelligence had a significant positive correlation with quality of life (r=.454, p<.001) but emotional intelligence was not associated with life satisfaction. Also quality of life had a significant correlation with life satisfaction (r=.402, p<.001). The results of t-test revealed that female students showed higher mean scores in quality of life and life satisfaction in comparison to their male student counterparts; however, there was no significant difference between the two groups in emotional intelligence scores. Conclusion: The results indicated that the higher scores of students’ emotional intelligence show the better quality of life they will have. Also quality of life is a variable that increasing students’ satisfaction of life. In order to raise the level of mental health, it is necessary to pay attention to the mentioned variables and educating people. http://hehp.modares.ac.ir/article-1-10360-en.pdf 2017-01-30 3 13 Emotional intelligence Life satisfaction Quality of life naemeh Alibabaie 1 Estahban Paramedical College, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Iran AUTHOR
ORIGINAL_ARTICLE Determinants of Dental Health Behaviors among Iranian Students Aim: Oral health plays a crucial role to general health, and influences individual’s quality of life. This study aimed to determine effective factors on dental health behaviors among Iranian students. Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out on high school students in the city of Sanandaj (western Iran) from November 2014 to July 2015. An instrument with 35 items was used for data collection. It included two sections: socio-demographic characteristics, and 7 domains related to dental health behaviors. Validity and reliability of the questionnaire were confirmed by using face, content and construct validity, and test-retest and Cronbach''s alpha, respectively. Simple random sampling and systematic random sampling techniques were used to select high school students. Plaque Index (PI) was recorded during the clinical dental examination. Finally, data were entered into the SPSS version 16.0 software and analyzed using ANOVA, Regression logistic, correlation coefficient tests, and independent t-test. Findings: There were statistically significant correlations between the role of school, fear of dental care, motivational beliefs, and value of teeth (P http://hehp.modares.ac.ir/article-1-3158-en.pdf 2017-01-30 15 24 Dental health Students Plaque index Questionnaire Arezo Falahi 1 Asistant Professor, Department of Public Health, School of Health, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran AUTHOR babak Nematshahrbabaki 2 M.Sc. in Health Services Management, Health Center of Sanandaj, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran AUTHOR
ORIGINAL_ARTICLE Do Depression Symptoms Predict Eating Disturbance? The Role of Emotion Regulation Strategy as a Mediator Aim: Depression symptoms play a major role in eating disorders; however, research shows that non-adaptive emotion regulation strategy is also associated with depression symptoms. The current study examined the mediating role of the emotion regulation strategy on the relationship between depression symptom and disordered eating among students. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2014 on a sample of 264 female students at Allameh Tabatabaie University, according to Morgan and Cluster samplings. The participants completed the questionnaires of depression, emotion regulation and eating attitudes test. The data were analyzed by SPSS software using coefficient correlation and stepwise regression. Statistical differences were considered significant at P<0.01.Findings: The results showed that there was a significant correlation among emotion regulation difficulties, depression symptom and disordered eating (p<0.01). Also regression analysis indicated that emotion regulation difficulties significantly mediated the relationship between depression symptoms and disordered eating (p<0.01).Conclusion: According to the findings of the present study, examining the role of emotion regulation strategies on the relationship between depression symptoms and eating disorders indicated that eating disorder is the regulating mechanism in reducing depression. http://hehp.modares.ac.ir/article-1-11220-en.pdf 2017-02-01 25 32 Emotion regulation strategy Depression symptoms Disordered eating mohamad reza khodabakhsh 1 PhD in Psychology, Department of Psychology, Neyshabur Branch, Islamic Azad University, Neyshabur, Iran AUTHOR Vahideh Maghmoumi 2 Master in Psychology, Neyshabur Branch, Islamic Azad University, Neyshabur, Iran AUTHOR fariba kiani 3 PhD in Psychology, Young Researchers and Elite Club, Shahrekord Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran AUTHOR
ORIGINAL_ARTICLE Family Communication Pattern and Mothers\' Behavioral Intention regarding Preventing Early-Onset Substance Use in Children: My Family-Study Aim: Considering the fundamental role of parents' function and family dynamics including the importance role of family communication pattern on preventing early-onset substance use in children, the present study aimed to determine the correlation between family communication pattern and mothers' preventive behavioral intention regarding preventing early-onset substance use in children. Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out among 234 Iranian mothers in Tehran who were randomly selected to participate voluntarily in the study. The participants filled out a self-administered questionnaire including I- demographic information; II- family-based behavioral intention regarding preventing early- onset substance use in children; and III- family communication pattern. Data were analyzed by the SPSS software (ver. 21.0) using Pearson's correlations, independent t-test, and ANOVA at 95% significant level. Findings: The results reported a correlation between conversation (r=0.509**& P≥0.001), conformity orientation (r= -0.150*& P=0.022) and behavioral intention; as well as between conversation conformity orientation (r= -0.382*& P≥0.001), and conversation (r=0.218**& P=0.001), conformity orientation (r= -0.105& P=0.108) and age. Conclusion: The findings suggest that to develop a preventive program, it will be useful to increase family communication pattern, specially conversation orientation to prevent the onset of substance use in children. http://hehp.modares.ac.ir/article-1-3815-en.pdf 2017-01-30 33 43 Family Cognitive factors Conformity orientation Conversation orientation Behavioral intention Mehdi mirzaei alavijeh 1 DPh.D. Candidate, Department of Health Education, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran. AUTHOR Alireza Heidarnia 2 Professor, Department of Health Education, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran. AUTHOR Gerjo Kok 3 Professor, Department of Work and Social Psychology School of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands AUTHOR Shamsedin Niknamy 4 Associate Professor, Department of Health Education, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran. AUTHOR Mohammad Ismail Motlagh 5 Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty Medicine, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran. AUTHOR Mahnaz Pishdar 6 Psychologist, Institute of Mehrvarzan- Pishgiri AUTHOR
ORIGINAL_ARTICLE Investigating the Relationship between the Mental Health of Students with Working and Non- working Mother’s Aim: The center of family around the mother and her presence or absence can effect on the emotional intelligence and mental health of students. In other words, working mothers inside or outside home have different effects on both the boy and girl students. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence and mental health of students with working and non-working mothers. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on a population consisting of all high school girls and boys in the city (total n=140). Data were gathered by a questionnaire. After verifying the validity and reliability, the data were collected, and analyzed using SPSS18 and descriptive statistics. Findings: The findings indicate that mothers’ employment brings no negative and positive consequences for emotional intelligence and mental health, though it positively affects students’ educational performance. Results also revealed that the adolescent children of employed mothers had high emotional intelligence. The female children of employed mothers showed more emotional intelligence, while there were no gender differences in the emotional intelligence of adolescent children of homemakers. Conclusion: The research finding revealed that boys and girls with working mothers have low mental health, this results approves that presence of mother at home is necessary. http://hehp.modares.ac.ir/article-1-3256-en.pdf 2017-01-30 45 53 Emotional intelligence Mental health Working and non-working mothers sara moussavi 1 Instructor of PNU, Graduated in MA General Psychology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Persian Gulf University, Iran AUTHOR fariba jamalzadeh 2 Instructor of PNU, Graduated in MA clinical Psychology, Azad University of Tehran, Roodehen, Tehran, Iran AUTHOR marziyeh kakanezhadifard 3 Graduated in MA Clinical Psychology, Azad University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran AUTHOR Omid vaezi 4 Instructor of PNU, Graduated in MA Educational Adminstration, University of Shiraz, Shiraz, Iran AUTHOR
ORIGINAL_ARTICLE Chronic Low Back Pain Preventive Behaviors among Nursing Aides: A Cross-sectional Study from Qom, Iran Aim: This is a cross- sectional study to assess low back pain preventive behaviors among Iranians nursing aides who provide direct patient care in hospitals. Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) comprise significant occupational injuries and disabilities within the nursing profession. Studies show that implementing a safe patient handling can prevent low back pain among nursing aides. Methods: This study was conducted in Qom (Iran) in 2015 with a sample of 452 eligible nursing aides working in six educational hospitals affiliated with Qom University of Medical Sciences. Data were collected by a researcher-developed questionnaire with 29 questions in two sections of demographic questions (17 items), and low back pain preventive behaviors were adopted from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) guidelines for nurses (12 items). Findings: Totally, 452 nursing aides suffering from chronic low back pain participated in the study, which included 289 males (63.9%) and 163 females (36.6%) with mean age of 37.71 (SD = 8.3) years. The mean score of applying low back pain preventive behaviors was 32.9 ± 7.7. Fifty nine participants (13.1%) had poor behavior scores, 251 participants (55.5 %) obtained average scores, and 142 participants (31.4 %) achieved acceptable scores due to their preventive behaviors. The majority of the studied nursing aides (68.6%) did not consistently perform safe patient handling. Conclusion: This study showed that most nursing aides had low preventive behaviors regarding maintaining their body mechanics. Thus, evaluating the causes of failing to do safe behaviors /safe patient handling  is strongly recommended in Iran. http://hehp.modares.ac.ir/article-1-3742-en.pdf 2017-01-30 55 65 Chronic Low Back Pain Preventive Behaviors Nursing aides Sarrallah Shojaee 1 Ph.D Student, Department of Health Education & Health Promotion, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran AUTHOR Sedigheh Sadat Tavafian 2 Associate Professor, Department of Health Education & Health Promotion, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran AUTHOR Ahmad Reza Jamshidi 3 Professor, Rheumatology Research center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Shariati Hospital, Tehran, Iran AUTHOR joan wagner 4 Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy (Rehabilitation Science), University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada AUTHOR