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Volume 3, Issue 1 (3-2015)
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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.
Zahra Akbari Chehrehbargh, Sedigheh Sadat Tavafian, Ali Montazeri,
Volume 8, Issue 4 (1-2023)
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Aims: Back pain is one of the most important public health problems. It is on rise among adolescent and pupils’ population. The aim of this study was to assess the relationshipbetween cognitive factors (skills, knowledge, self-efficacy, and expectation beliefs) and back care behavior among pupils.
Method and Materials: A cross sectional study was conducted on a random sample of students attending public elementary schools in Tehran, Iran from October 2018 to March 2019. They completed a questionnaire containing items on cognitive abilities and a checklist to assess their skills on back care behaviors. Stepwise multiple regression analysis was performed to find out the contribution of cognitive factors on outcome.
Findings: In all, 204 students were entered into the study. The results revealed that 95.3% of the variance in the back behavior was explained by self-efficacy (β=0.586, t=12.08, P<0.001), expectation beliefs (β=0.232, t= 5.08, P<0.001), and skills (β=0.181, t=4.46, P<0.001).
Conclusion: These results showed that the pupils who had more confident, skills, and expectation beliefs were more likely to do proper back behavior. In this regard, schoolbased back pain prevention interventions should be addressed using key cognitive factors that consider the potential change strategies.
Volume 31, Issue 2 (5-2024)
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Few studies have explored the relationship between non-cognitive factors in different educational settings and with different age groups. The purpose of this study is to determine whether there is a relationship between Study Habits (SH) and Commitment to Ethical Codes (CEC) and their ability to predict the academic performance of language learners in schools and universities (547 students aged under 18 – above 35 years old). The instruments used are adapted versions of questionnaires which were made into one survey tool with each measure in distinct sections. The results showed a significant relationship between SH and CEC displaying a positive relationship in all age groups (a highest relationship in the age group of 18-22, P< 0.05) and in both male/females with male participants reported having the highest relationship (P< 0.05). The study concludes that CEC needs to be considered and assessed during school years with additional training to language learners to help them learn or modify SH to increase their performance at the time of entry into university.
