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The attitude of health care providers towards the elderly has an important effect on the quality of service delivery. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes of health staff in Gorgan towards the elderly.

In this descriptive study, 395 health care providers in Gorgan in 2019 were selected by census sampling method and completed a questionnaire on demographic information and attitudes towards the elderly. Data were analyzed by independent t-test, Pearson’s correlation coefficient, and one-way analysis of variance.

73 participants (18.5%) had a good attitude towards the elderly, 319 (80.8%) had a moderate attitude, and 3 (0.8%) had a weak attitude. There was a statistically significant relationship between the overall score of attitude towards the elderly and job background (p<0.001).

There was a moderate attitude towards the elderly in most of the participants. Designing and implementing more interventions is necessary to promote a positive attitude towards the elderly.

A scientific questionnaire for assessing the knowledge, attitude and judgment of people on waste management by municipalities has not been developed so far. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to design and validation of an instrument to assess the knowledge, attitude and judgment of people on waste management by municipalities. This analytical study was conducted in District 21 of Tehran in 2017. The initial items of the questionnaire were designed based on previous studies and opinions of the team of specialists and people. Then, the face validity and the content validity of the designed questionnaire was examined. The face validity and the content validity was examined qualitatively and quantitatively, respectively. Finally, the reliability of the attitude and knowledge and evaluation of municipal performance items were measured by Cronbach's alpha and a test-retest method, respectively. The initial questionnaire had 43 items. In the face validity, 8 items were removed and 8 items were edited. In quantitative content validity, 7 items were excluded, with the content validity index of less than 0.79 and the content validity ratio less than 0.49. Pearson correlation coefficient obtained for knowledge component equal to (r=0.77, p<0.0001) and for component performance (r=0.93, p<0.0001), respectively. Cronbach's alpha coefficient was equal to 0.89 for items attitudes, which were in an acceptable level. The questionnaire can be used as a valid research instrument to collect information on knowledge, attitude and judgment of people on waste management by municipalities.

Abstract

Population of the elderly is on the rise in Iran. Health care staff have an important role in educating the community and preventing and managing the illnesses related to elderly disorder (such as Alzheimer disease).

Determination of Investiating the Knowledge and Practice about Prevention of Alzheimer Disease in Health Care Workers.

In this descriptive-analytical study, 72% health professionals of Health network of Rasht completed a questionnaire on knowledge and practice about preventaion of Alzheimer disease. Data were analyzed by SPSS and Spearman’s rho correlation coefficient, Chi-square and Kruskal-Wallis H.

The mean age of participants was 40. 8 (SD=7. 1) years with 71% being female. Only, 32% of them had good knowledge about Alzheimer disease and 21. 9% had good function in performing preventive measures for the disease. The majority of participants had moderate knowledge (66%) and function (77%) for Alzheimer disease. The results of Spearman’s rho correlation coefficient showed that there was no significant relationship between knowledge and function (p=0. 029, r=0. 133).

Knowledge and function of health care workers of Rasht city is in the moderate level. Given the non significant relationship between knowledge and function among participants, further investigations into other factors influencing the function are suggested. Conflict of interest: non declared و

Pedestrians'' traffic accidents are one of the most important causes of death throughout the world. Access to the information or existing status could pave the way for educational interventions to prevent traffic accidents. Theory of the planned behavior shows the relationship between some constructs relating to beha-vioral intention، attitude، perceived beha-vioral control، normative belief and the beh-avior. This research aimed to determine the relationship between constructs of the pla-nned behavior theory and road crossing safe behaviors among the fourth grade students of Tehran city in 2010

In this descriptive-analytic research، 160 students were sele-cted among schools in district 4 of Tehran city through random sampling method. These students answered standard question-nnaire in which their validity and reliability had been evaluated. Finally، the gathered data were analyzed with software SPSS (version16)

Research results showed that there was significant relationship between road crossing safe behavior and constructs of intention (P<0. 001)، perceived behave-ioral control (P<0. 001)، compliance motive (P<0. 001)، consequence evaluation (P=0. 04)، and normative beliefs (P<0. 001) and there was no significant relationship between road crossing safe behavior and construct of behavioral belief. Linear reg-ression test results specified that the beh-avioral intention with B=2. 35 was a suitable predictor of road crossing safe behavior. Discussion &

The results dem-onstrated that the planned behavior theory can be used as a suitable framework for designing of educational interventions to improve of the students'' road crossing beha-viors.

Back pain represents one of the most common occupational problems in nursing. Since the correct posture has a key role in prevention of back pain، this study was performed to determine of operating- room nurses'' readiness to adopt correct posture based on Transtheoretical Model (TTM).

This descriptive-analytical study included a convenience sample of 110 operating- room nurses employed at four hospitals in city of Hamadan. Participations completed a designed questionnaire to assess the readiness of change based on TTM.

The results of present study revealed that by increasing the stage of change (from precontemplation to maintenance)، adopting correct posture in the nurses، increased as well (P=. 01). Also، by increasing the stage of change، self-efficacy for adopting correct posture increased (P=. 03) and perceived cons decreased (P=. 02). Stage of change constructs could predict 68% variance of adopting correct posture in the nurses.

The results of present study indicated that the majority of operating-room nurses are in pre-operational levels (precontemplation، contemplation and preparation) for adopting correct posture. Considering stages of change as an intervening variable may contribute in any future intervention for this group.

Breakfast, considered to be the most important meal, is skipped more ferquently than other meals by children and adolescents. ‏This study aimed to determine breakfast consumption and its predictors among Qom school girl students based on the Pender`s health promotion model constructs.

This descriptive-analytical study was carried out on 100 secondary school girl students selected by classified random sampling from among secondary schools of the City of Qom, Iran. The Pender`s health promotion model (HPM) constructs were used as the theoretical framework. Data were collected using questionnaires. Statistical analysis of the data was performed by SPSS (version 17) software, the statistical tests being correlation and regression analysis.

The average number of breakfasts consumed per week was 3 (± 1.5). Body mass index, time of waking up in the morning, and interpersonal influences had no significant correlations with the average number of breakfasts consumed per week. On the basis of the Pender`s health promotion model constructs and personal factors having a potentially significant correlation with behavior, 69% of the variability in breakfast consumption by the girl students (R2 =0.69, F =12.68, p< 0.0001) was predicted by the folowing variables: prior related behaviors, perceived barriers, self-efficacy, and competing demands and preferences.

In designing nutritional interventions aiming at increasing breakfast consumption in school girl students, it is better to put more emphasis on strategies to promote self-efficacy and reduce perceived barriers. Also, paying due attention to prior related behavior and competing demands and preferences can be beneficial in designing effective interventions.