Home Food Safety Practice and Household Food Insecurity: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach.

Background: Food safety and food security are interrelated concepts with a profound impact on the quality of human life. The current study, for the first time, was set to identify associations between home food safety practice and household food insecurity a structural equation modeling approach.

Methods: In this cross-sectional study, urban households were selected from among 10 health centers of five districts of Tehran, Iran (2015).

Development of a Home Food Safety Questionnaire Based on the PRECEDE Model: Targeting Iranian Women.

Food safety is an essential public health issue for all countries. This study was the first attempt to design and develop a home food safety questionnaire (HFSQ), in the conceptual framework of the PRECEDE (predisposing, reinforcing, and enabling constructs in educational diagnosis and evaluation) model, and to assess its validity and reliability. The HFSQ was developed by reviewing electronic databases and 12 focus group discussions with 96 women volunteers.

Family-based intervention for controlling childhood obesity: an experience among Iranian children.

Background: Treatment of childhood obesity is difficult, and successful management may differ in various areas with different cultural backgrounds. The present study was conducted to assess the effect of lifestyle modification family-based intervention in young Iranian children.

Methods: This field trial study was conducted in 2011 among 156 obese children in Tehran, Iran.