Reza Jorvand; Mahmoud Tavousi; Fazlollah Ghofranipour
Volume 20, s1 , December 2018, , Pages 1-9
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Background: Inactivity is one of the factors to increase the risk of having cardiovascular diseases. Objectives: This methodological design study was conducted on the staff of Ilam Medical Science University (Ilam, Iran) in 2016 in order to assess the psychometric properties of the Iranian version of ...
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Background: Inactivity is one of the factors to increase the risk of having cardiovascular diseases. Objectives: This methodological design study was conducted on the staff of Ilam Medical Science University (Ilam, Iran) in 2016 in order to assess the psychometric properties of the Iranian version of Impact of Sport on the Cardiovascular Diseases Scale based on the Health Belief Model (HBM - ISCS). Methods: In this study, first, targeted questions were selected based on the scientific literature review (N = 54) and then, the basic version of the questionnaire, including 14 questions in terms of HBM (Health Belief Model) constructs, went on the validation phase using the opinions of experts. At this stage, content and construct validity and reliability were reviewed and approved. Results: Over all, 433 individuals with a mean age of about 38 years participated in the study. Based on the results, content validity rate (CVR) higher than 0.05 (number of specialists = 20) and content validity index (CVI) higher than the acceptable level of 0.79 were calculated. The primary Exploratory Factor Analysis (in a random spitted sample, N = 187) extracted five factors that jointly accounted for 59.804% of the variance observed. The results of Confirmatory Factor Analysis (in a random spitted sample, N = 246) showed that the questionnaire has desirable construct validity: (X2 = 146.81, df = 67, P < 0.001, CFI = 0.93, IFI = 0.93, RMSEA = 0.074 and SRMR = 0.067). Similarly, the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was calculated between 0.715 and 0.816, and the Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC) was obtained between 0.455 and 0.623 for the subscales. Conclusions: The results indicated that HBM - ISCS is a valid and reliable tool for measuring the health beliefs about the impact of sport on CVDs prevention.
Rahman Panahi; Ali Ramezankhani; Mahmoud Tavousi; Shamsaddin Niknami
Volume 20, Issue 2 , 2018, Pages 1-10
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Background: It is believed that smoking is the gateway to use substances and illicit drugs. Due to an increase in smoking among students, we thought there is a need for more efficient ways to prevent smoking among the young and adolescents. Objectives: This study aimed to develop an extended version ...
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Background: It is believed that smoking is the gateway to use substances and illicit drugs. Due to an increase in smoking among students, we thought there is a need for more efficient ways to prevent smoking among the young and adolescents. Objectives: This study aimed to develop an extended version of the Health Belief Model (HBM) with elements of Health Literacy (HL) to assess whether an educational intervention could be effective in smoking prevention based on this new development in 2016. Methods: This was a quasi-experimental study performed on 130 students living in dormitories of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran, Iran, who were recruited and assigned to experimental and control groups (each containing 65 stu- dents). The experimental group received six electronic educational sessions via telegram application while the control group re- ceived no intervention. The data were collected using a questionnaire containing items on HBM, smoking preventive behaviors, and a measure of HL (the HL inventory for adults-HELIA). The questionnaire was completed at three time-points: before, immedi- ately and three months after the intervention. Data analyses were done using analysis of variance, Friedman and Mann-Whitney U Tests. The significance level was set at 0.05. Results: Before the intervention, there was no significant difference in the demographic and background variables, the underlying level of knowledge, preventive behaviors, HL, and all the constructs of the model between the groups (P > 0.05). After the inter- vention, comparing two groups showed that the mean scores of knowledge, preventive behaviors, HL, and all components of the model changed significantly in the experimental group compared to the control group (P < 0.05). The mean and standard devi- ation of adoption of smoking preventive behaviors at the beginning of the study in smoking and non-smoking students in the experimental group were 12.66 ± 1.24 and 8.66 ± 0.16, respectively. Then, after three months they changed to 22.32 ± 3.53 and 9.38 ± 0.33, respectively, which represents a significant increase in the adoption of behaviors in the experimental group (p < 0.0001),but no significant difference was observed in the adoption of smoking preventive behaviors in smoking and non-smoking students in the control group (p > 0.05). Conclusions: This study showed that educational intervention by Telegram application based on HBM and HL was effective in pro- moting the adoption of smoking preventive behaviors among university students
Rahman Panahi; Ali Ramezankhani; Mahmoud Tavousi; Shamsaddin Niknami
Volume 20, Issue 1 , 2018, Pages 1-10
Abstract
Background: It is believed that smoking is the gateway to use substances and illicit drugs. Due to an increase in smoking among students, we thought there is a need for more efficient ways to prevent smoking among the young and adolescents. Objectives: This study aimed to develop an extended version ...
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Background: It is believed that smoking is the gateway to use substances and illicit drugs. Due to an increase in smoking among students, we thought there is a need for more efficient ways to prevent smoking among the young and adolescents. Objectives: This study aimed to develop an extended version of the Health Belief Model (HBM) with elements of Health Literacy (HL) to assess whether an educational intervention could be effective in smoking prevention based on this new development in 2016. Methods: This was a quasi-experimental study performed on 130 students living in dormitories of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran, Iran, who were recruited and assigned to experimental and control groups (each containing 65 stu-dents). The experimental group received six electronic educational sessions via telegram application while the control group re-ceived no intervention. The data were collected using a questionnaire containing items on HBM, smoking preventive behaviors,and a measure of HL (the HL inventory for adults-HELIA). The questionnaire was completed at three time-points: before, immedi-ately and three months after the intervention. Data analyses were done using analysis of variance, Friedman and Mann-Whitney U Tests. The significance level was set at 0.05.Results: Before the intervention, there was no significant difference in the demographic and background variables, the underlying level of knowledge, preventive behaviors, HL, and all the constructs of the model between the groups (P > 0.05). After the inter-vention, comparing two groups showed that the mean scores of knowledge, preventive behaviors, HL, and all components of the model changed significantly in the experimental group compared to the control group (P < 0.05). The mean and standard devi-ation of adoption of smoking preventive behaviors at the beginning of the study in smoking and non-smoking students in the experimental group were 12.66 ± 1.24 and 8.66 ± 0.16, respectively. Then, after three months they changed to 22.32 ± 3.53 and 9.38 ± 0.33, respectively, which represents a significant increase in the adoption of behaviors in the experimental group (p < 0.0001),but no significant difference was observed in the adoption of smoking preventive behaviors in smoking and non-smoking students in the control group (p > 0.05). Conclusions: This study showed that educational intervention by Telegram application based on HBM and HL was effective in pro-moting the adoption of smoking preventive behaviors among university students.
