This paper reports on the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) as well as individual, socioeconomic, and family function characteristics associated with IPV among women attending public health services in Marivan County, Iran. Multistage cluster sampling was employed to recruit 770 women to participate in the study. This descriptive, cross-sectional study took place from May to November 2009. The majority of the women (79.7 %) had experienced psychological IPV, followed by physical IPV (60 %) and sexual IPV (32.9 %). There was a positive significant relationship between IPV and education level of women and the level of religious commitment in both women and spouses. Spouse's smoking, addiction to drugs, mental illness, and weakness in religious persuasion were statistically significant predictors of IPVand accounted for 36 % of the variation. This correlational study suggests that educational programs regarding these risk factors and their associations with the outcome of IPV should be designed by healthcare providers and implemented not only in healthcare facilities, but presented from local media. Public health services and healthcare facilities can play an important role in the detection of IPV and improve responses to victims by establishing education centers and informing women of the best ways they can confront this deleterious problem.
Background and Objective:The prevalence of skin cancer has been rising in Iran in the recent years. This disease is the most common cancer in Kurdistan province, Iran. Regrding this, the present study aimed to investigate the determinants of skin cancer preventive behaviors (SCPBs) among the high school students of Sanandaj, Iran, using the PRECEDE model. Materials and Methods:This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on 225 second-and third-grade high school students (age range: 15-17 years) in Sanandaj during the academic year of 2013-2015. The study population was selected through multistage sampling method. The students filled out some questionnaires covering such data as knowledge, attitude, self-efficacy, social support (as reinforcing factors), enabling factors, and SCPBs. The data were analyzed using one-way ANOVA, independent t-test, Pearson correlation coefficient, and linear regression in SPSS software, version 21. Results: According to the results, SCPBs showed a direct correlation with attitude (r=0.175), self-efficacy (r=0.509), social support (r=0.332), and enabling factors (r=0.347). The mean SCPBs among the students was lower than moderate. The results of linear regression analysis revealed that the independent variables predicted 29.9% of SCPBs within which self-efficacy was the only significant variable (P<0.001, β=0.416). Conclusion: As the findings indicated, perceived self-efficacy was a vital factor for performing SCPBs. Therefore, perceived self-efficacy should be considered as the first priority while planning for skin cancer prevention programs for high school students.
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