Background: In recent decades, with the significant developments in technology, the Internet has become a main part of peoples' lives. The widespread use of the Internet has raised significant concerns about problematic Internet behaviors and their consequences. This study aimed to examine if Internet addiction significantly predicts obesity and whether Internet addiction and obesity are significantly predicted by emotion dysregulation.
Mthods: 367 school-attending adolescents (M age = 13.35; SD = 0.82; 49% girls) in Tekab were recruited and completed the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) and Internet Addiction Test (IAT) measures, while their BMI scores were calculated to examine the participants' obesity levels.
Results: The results indicated that Internet addiction significantly predicted obesity, while they both were significantly predicted by emotion dysregulations.
Conclusion: Our findings could be informative for clinicians working with individuals suffering from Internet addiction and obesity.
Background and purpose: Rodents are the reservoir of many zoonotic diseases, including some helminth infection. The necessity to identify rodents and parasites which are transmitted through in different geographical areas of Iran and control and prevention measures can be very important from a health point of view. Materials& method: In this study 40 rodents were caught from different parts of Alborz province from autumn 2018 to autumn 2020. Internal organs and viscera of mice erer examined after dissection using direct parasitological methods and parasites isolated from each rodent were identified in terms of genus and species. Results: Of the 40 rodents killed, 57.5% were infected with parasitic helminth. Detected worm species include Hymenolepis diminuta (17.5%), Hymenolepis nana feraterna(7.5%), Syphacia obvelata(7.5%), Syphacia muris(2.5%), Aspicularis tetraptera(7.5%), Trichuris muris(15%), Cysticercus fasciolaris(Taenia taeniae formis Larva Stag)(2.5%), Trichosomoides crassicauda(2.5%).
Conclusion:The results indicate the infection of rodent in Alborz province with different types of worms. Isolation of some zoonotic worm parasites from rodents in urban and rural communities reminds the neceeity of more attention for control and prevention measures as the most important action to prevent spread of parasitic disese in province.
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