Journal of Education and Health Promotion

Development and validation of a questionnaire based on the protection motivation theory to predict cigarette smoking preventive behavior in the Iranian university students

. Salime Zare Abdollahi; . Seyed Saeed Mazloomy Mahmoodabad,; . Mohammad Hasan Lotfi; . Seyed Mojtaba Yassini Ardakani

Volume 13, Issue 1 , January 2023, , Pages 1-9

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BACKGROUND: Prevention of smoking is very important at a young age and during the studentperiod. Because of the lack of a questionnaire based on the prevention of smoking behavior,this ... Read More

Designing an educational campaign intervention on smoking preventive behaviors in students: A protocol

. Seyed Saeed Mazloomy Mahmoodabad,; . Salime Zare Abdollahi; . Mohammad Hasan Lotfi

Volume 11, Issue 9 , October 2021, , Pages 1-7

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BACKGROUND: Todays, human lifestyle has faced significant changes, and this lifestyle hascaused health problems. The increase of smoking, among young people, is one of the risk factorsand ... Read More

Determiners of fast‑food consumption in Iranian university students: Application of prototype/willingness model

. Seyed Saeed Mazloomy Mahmoodabad,; . Mahmood Mahbobirad; . Mohammad Asadpour; . Ali Akbar Vaezi; . Hossein Fallahzadeh; . Hassan Zareei Mahmoodabadi

Volume 10, Issue 12 , December 2020, , Pages 1-6

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BACKGROUND: Today, marked by advanced scientific approach, urbanism, and changing life style,there is an ever‑growing rate of fast‑food consumption, which has significantly affected ... Read More

A questionnaire on factors affecting the precaution adoption process model for cervical cancer – Psychometric properties

. Seyed Saeed Mazloomy Mahmoodabad,; . Ali Asadian; . Hossein Fallahzadeh; . Minoo Rajaei

Volume 10, Issue 10 , October 2020, , Pages 1-10

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BACKGROUND: Implementing a cervical cancer prevention program requires an exploration ofcertain behaviors concerning this disease. This study is aimed to evaluate the psychometrics ... Read More BACKGROUND: Implementing a cervical cancer prevention program requires an exploration ofcertain behaviors concerning this disease. This study is aimed to evaluate the psychometrics of aquestionnaire that enquired about the factors involved in Precaution Adoption Process Model (PAPM)for cervical cancer among suburban women in Bandar Abbas, south of Iran.MATERIALS AND METHODS: The primary draft of the questionnaire was developed with a reviewof the related literature on cervical cancer and the constructs affecting PAPM, with 68 items. Theface validity, content validity ratio (CVR), and content validity index (CVI) of the questionnairewere approved by a panel of 10 experts. The internal consistency and test‑retest reliability of thequestionnaire were estimated too. Field testing sample included 300 women recruited from a women’shealthcare center in suburban areas of Bandar Abbas in the south of Iran. Exploratory factor analysiswas used to evaluate validity, and Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was estimated for reliability.RESULTS: After the face validation, 11 items were eliminated. Once CVR was estimated, two itemswere discarded. The remaining items had a CVR >0.79. All had a CVI >0.79. Six items were eliminatedin the factor analysis. The final questionnaire included 49 items organized in 8 factors includingawareness, perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived benefits, perceived barriers,social norms, fear, and self‑efficacy. Principal component analysis with varimax rotation indicatedeight main components that explained 56.25% of the variance. Reliability assessment showed agood internal consistency for all subscales and the Cronbach’s alpha score ranged between 0.82and 0.90. The test‑retest reliability showed that the correlation coefficients (between 0.81 and 0.89)were significant at the 0.01 level for all sub‑scales.CONCLUSIONS: The final questionnaire was a new instrument comprised the effective constructsof PAPM and had a high reliability and validity. Thus, this questionnaire is recommended to be usedto explore and enhance preventive behaviors of cervical cancer.

Evaluating perceived threat of skin cancer and preventive measures in South Iranian sailors: A qualitative study

. Seyed Saeed Mazloomy Mahmoodabad,; . Ahmad Sotoudeh; . Ali Akbar Vaezi; . Hossein Fallahzadeh; . Mohammad Taqhi Noorbala

Volume 9, Issue 12 , December 2019, , Pages 1-7

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BACKGROUND: Sailors are exposed to sunlight as their job requires and are, in the long run, moreprone to different types of skin cancer. This study aimed to explore sailors’ experience ... Read More

Self‑efficacy and perceived barriers of pregnant women regarding exposure to second‑hand smoke at home

. Seyed Saeed Mazloomy Mahmoodabad,; . Zohreh Karimiankakolaki; . Ashraf Kazemi; . Hossein Fallahzadeh

Volume 9, Issue 7 , July 2019, , Pages 1-6

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BACKGROUND AND AIM: The inability of women to demand from their husbands, for not smoking,has been reported as a factor in exposure to cigarette smoke. This study aimed to investigate ... Read More BACKGROUND AND AIM: The inability of women to demand from their husbands, for not smoking,has been reported as a factor in exposure to cigarette smoke. This study aimed to investigate theperceived barriers and self‑efficacy of pregnant women regarding second‑hand smoke (SHS) at home.MATERIALS AND METHODS: This was a cross‑sectional study, and the sample size was 255pregnant women who visited the health‑care centers in Isfahan, Iran, from July 2018 to September2018, and were selected randomly and voluntarily. A questionnaire was designed to collect thedata about the exposure to smoke, perceived barriers, and self‑efficacy. The data were analyzedusing descriptive statistics (mean score and standard deviation), inferential statistics (nonparametricMann–Whitney and Kendall test), and Spearman’s correlation and regression.RESULTS: The mean score of self‑efficacy in the exposure group was lower than that the othergroup (P = 0.000). The mean score of perceived barrier was not a significant difference (P = 0.449).Personal perceived barriers are the most important predictor of self‑efficacy of pregnant womenin exposure to SHS (95% confidence interval: 0.013–0.262) (P = 0.030). Kendall test comparingitems within the group and Mann–Whitney test comparing the two groups showed that personalfactors such as “Unaware of the dangers of SHS and protective measures” for notexposed womenand environmental factor “the lack of ban smoking law at home” for exposed women are consideredthe most important barriers (P = 0.000). “Not being together a husband” (P = 0.293) and “going toanother place when smoking a husband” (P = 0.000) are the highest self‑efficacy items.CONCLUSIONS: It is necessary to develop training programs to increase self‑efficacy to avoidexposure to SHS and for both pregnant women and their husbands. It is also necessary to educateand inform about SHS and protective measures against it and to set up “smoking ban law” at homein our country to protect pregnant women.

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Development and validation of a questionnaire based on the protection motivation theory to predict cigarette smoking preventive behavior in the Iranian university students

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Designing an educational campaign intervention on smoking preventive behaviors in students: A protocol

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Determiners of fast‑food consumption in Iranian university students: Application of prototype/willingness model

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A questionnaire on factors affecting the precaution adoption process model for cervical cancer – Psychometric properties

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Evaluating perceived threat of skin cancer and preventive measures in South Iranian sailors: A qualitative study

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Self‑efficacy and perceived barriers of pregnant women regarding exposure to second‑hand smoke at home

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