Design and psychometrics of a tool for measuring social cognitive factors related to the preventive behaviors toward Covid-19 in the society.

With the emergence of new strains of Covid-19, the adoption of preventive behaviors is still considered a requirement to control this disease. Therefore, considering the importance of social cognitive factors in adopting various types of preventive behaviors, the present study was conducted to design and psychometrically measure the social cognitive factors related to Covid-19 preventive behaviors. A cross-sectional study was conducted on 526 people ages 18 and over with multi-stage stratified, cluster and random sampling in Isfahan, Iran in 2022.

Factors influencing the ability of family caregivers of Alzheimer's patients within Iranian families to continue and persist in their caregiving roles: a qualitative study.

Background: Understanding the motivations driving family members to continue caring for individuals with Alzheimer's disease is crucial for enhancing social support programs within community health systems. This study specifically explores the factors influencing Iranian family caregivers' ability to persist in their caregiving roles.

Methods: This qualitative study was conducted using conventional content analysis with 22 participants in 2022 in Babol (a city in northern Iran).

Educational WhatsApp-delivered intervention based on social cognitive theory to promote leishmaniosis preventive behavior of health ambassadors: a randomized controlled trial.

Background: Multidimensional strategies can promote preventive behaviors to prevent cutaneous leishmaniosis. WhatsApp, the popular messenger of Iranians, can be used as a platform to provide health education interventions. This study aimed to investigate the effect of using an educational intervention in WhatsApp based on social cognitive theory (SCT) on the preventive behaviors of health ambassadors.

Exploring the barriers to Pap smear test compliance: A qualitative study for improving cervical cancer screening in the primary health care.

Background: Cervical cancer in Iran ranks as the fourth most frequent cancer among women. Pap smear (PS) is the best standard for detecting cervical cancer, but many people, even healthcare providers (HCPs), do not maintain it. HCPs play a critical role in promoting PS uptake.

Socio-ecological factors of girl child marriage: a meta-synthesis of qualitative research.

Background: Child marriage of girls is one example of human rights violations, and is increasingly recognized as a key obstacle to global public health. Given the importance of a comprehensive understanding of the motivations for child marriage, this study aimed to identify socio-ecological factors contributing to gills child marriage.

Methods: A comprehensive search was conducted of all English-language studies measuring causes of child marriage between 2000 and October 2022 in the Web of Science, PubMed, Scopus, PsycInfo, ProQuest, Poplin and Google Scholar databases.

Adolescents' Perspectives on Facilitators and Barriers to Social Health in the Family: A Qualitative Study.

Background: Family plays the most fundamental role in the adolescent's health. A deep understanding of family characteristics, beliefs, and function about the adolescent social health provides a framework, relying on which one can perceive how this dimension of health is developed and promoted in this setting. In this study, we aimed to understand the family context that facilitates or limits adolescent social health.

Perceptions and determinants of oral health care among Iranian pregnant women: a qualitative study.

Objectives: This study aimed to gain a comprehensive understanding of the determinants that influence oral healthcare behaviours among Iranian pregnant women.

Study Design: Qualitative study.

Setting: Comprehensive health service centres.

Prevalence of Gestational Diabetes in Iran: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Background: Pregnant women who have gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) are more prone to adverse pregnancy outcomes. We estimated the prevalence of GDM in Iran.

Methods: Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed, Google Scholar, and Persian databases (SID, Magiran, Irandoc, and) were searched using the MeSH and non-MeSH terms in abstract, title, or keywords of articles until June 2021, with no limitation in time.

Exploring the conceptual framework of a health-promotion faculty from the perspective of members: a qualitative study.

Objectives: Understanding the concepts and structures of health promotion in the faculty from the perspective of its members.

Study Design: Qualitative study.

Settings: Faculties of Medical Sciences University.

A Systematic Review for Evaluation of Specialized Programs for Addressing Young Women with Breast Cancer Problems.

Introduction: Breast cancer (BC) is one of the most common health concerns among women and is the leading cause of cancer-related death around the world. Women, in particular young women, face unique and complex problems with BC. Physical, psychological, emotional, educational, and long-term BC-related problems have been recognized for these vulnerable populations.

Exploration factors on smoking among female adolescents based on the viewpoints of Iranian adolescent girls.

Background: In recent years, the prevalence of smoking in women has increased significantly. This study aimed to explain the effective factors in the tendency to smoke in female adolescents, employing a qualitative method of content analysis in Mashhad, Iran.

Methods: The data for this conventional content analysis were obtained by conducting semi‑structured interviews with 20 female adolescent smokers.

Stakeholders' Experiences and Perspectives Regarding Care Quality for Women With Breast Cancer: A Systematic Review.

Background: The considerable growth in the number of patients with breast cancer leads to substantial pressure on healthcare services; however, the main measures that will evaluate what is important to the key stakeholders in improving the quality of breast cancer care are not well defined.

Objective: This study aimed to synthesize providers' and patients' experiences and perspectives regarding barriers and quality breast cancer care in health services.

Methods: PubMed, Scopus, MEDLINE, Web of Knowledge, and the Cochrane Library databases were searched, and articles published in English up to August 2020 were screened.

Attributes of Organizational Health Literacy in Health Care Centers in Iran: A Qualitative Content Analysis Study.

Organizational Health Literacy (OHL) is described as a new concept to remote health organizations to implement practices, policies, and systems that make it easier for patients to use, understand, and navigate health information to take care their own health. In Iran, there is no consensus on the attributes of OHL, and its practical implications and scope have not been evaluated. This manuscript is one of the first attempts to explain the attributes of the OHL in health care centers in Iran.

Exploration the role of social, cultural and environmental factors in tendency of female adolescents to smoking based on the qualitative content analysis.

Background: The aim of this study was to explain the socio-cultural and environmental factors of smoking tendency in female adolescents.

Methods: This qualitative content analysis study was conducted among Iranian female adolescents in Mashhad, Iran. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews with 20 female smokers.

Predictors of preventive behavior of nosocomial infections in nursing staff: a structural equation model based on the social cognitive theory.

Background: The occurrence of nosocomial infections remains a health threat to patients and hospital staff. This study applied social-cognitive theory for predicting determinants of nosocomial infections control behaviors in hospital nursing Staff.

Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 280 nurses and assistant nurses were selected by random sampling from intensive care wards including CCU, ICU, NICU, dialysis of educational hospitals in Mashhad, Iran in 2020.

Design and evaluation of psychometric properties of cigarette smoking tendency questionnaire for female adolescents (CTQFA).

Background: The tendency of women to smoke has increased in recent years and the prevalence of smoking among women is increasing. The purpose of this study was to design and evaluation the psychometric properties of the smoking tendency questionnaire for Iranian female adolescents.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed on 604 female adolescents in Iran in 2021.

The Health Literacy Status and Its Role in Interventions in Iran: A Systematic and Meta-Analysis.

There are increasing calls for public health policies to realize the visions of a health literate society and health literacy on a global scale. However, there are still more gaps in what researchers recognize and what steps they should take to improve health literacy (HL) skills. This review aimed to measure the HL status of the Iranian population and the effect size of the underlying association between HL and other health outcomes, and to examine the effectiveness of HL interventions on improving the functional dimension of HL, self-efficacy, and health-promoting behaviors.

The Effect of Peer Support with Telecommunication on Subjective Well-being in Colorectal Patients: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial.

Background: Colorectal cancer has a widespread impact on the psychological and physical dimensions of patients and threatens their subjective well-being. Peer support is an effective strategy to increase subjective well-being in cancer patients. This study aims to evaluate the impact of peer support through telecommunications on the subjective well-being of colorectal cancer patients.

Design and psychometric evaluation of self-care behavior assessment tool in diabetic patients.

Objective S: Diabetes is the most common metabolic disease with an increasing prevalence throughout the world due to the changes in lifestyle. Appropriate self-care promotes the life condition of people with chronic illnesses and reduces the side effects of such diseases, so this study was designed to develop a scale for evaluating self-care in middle-aged patients diabetes.

Methods: In this methodological study, the following 4 steps were conducted for design and psychometric measurement of the questionnaire: 1) Data collection was carried out during a supplementary cross-sectional survey of the qualitative study; 2) determining the face validity (the assessment of facility, difficulty, and ambiguity of the items and their importance for patients) and content validity of the questionnaire (the assessment of appropriateness and necessity of items by experts opinions and measuring CVR and CVI; 3) the internal consistency of the questionnaire was evaluated by determining the Cranach's alpha coefficient (α = 0.

National, regional, and global prevalence of cigarette smoking among women/females in the general population: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: This systematic and meta-analysis review aimed to provide an updated estimate of the prevalence of ever and current cigarette smoking in women, in geographic areas worldwide, and demonstrate a trend of the prevalence of smoking over time by using a cumulative meta-analysis.

Methods: Following PRISMA guidelines, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies published on the prevalence of ever and current cigarette smoking in women. We searched PubMed, Web of Science (ISI), Scopus, and Ovid from January 2010 to April 2020.

The Relationship Between Health Literacy Level and Self-Care Behaviors in Patients with Diabetes.

Background: The most important factor in controlling diabetes is self-care behaviors; improving self-care behaviors is the first step in helping patients to better control and manage their diseases and health literacy is recognized as a vital and important indicator of outcomes and costs in healthcare. Therefore, the effectiveness of health-care systems requires that people have the desirable health literacy level. Therefore, this research intended to study the relationship between health literacy levels in patients with diabetes and their self-care behaviors.

Enablers of and Barriers to Effective Diabetes Self-Care in Iran: A Qualitative Study.

Introduction: Self-care behaviors are the most important factor in diabetes management, and improving such behaviors is the cornerstone in helping patients to manage their illness. The current study aimed to determine interfering factors in the self-care process in patients with diabetes.

Methods: The present qualitative study with content-analysis design was performed from March 2017 to April 2019 in Mashhad, Iran.

Relationship between self-care behaviors and health literacy among elderly women in Iran, 2015.

Background And Aim: Self-care is a basic concept in health promotion, regarding the importance of health literacy as a key factor in self-care. This study aimed to identify the relationship between self-care behaviors and health literacy among elderly women in Iran.

Methods: This descriptive and analytic study was performed between October and December 2015.

Psychosocial experiences of the internet in a group of adolescents: A qualitative content analysis.

Social networking has a dramatically increasing trend among adolescents. By creating novel models of content production, distribution, and reception, this space has introduced opportunities and threats for adolescents, which must be understood in relation with their health status. This study was conducted with the aim of describing the psychosocial experiences of Iranian adolescents in the Internet's virtual space.