Objective: To assess the impact of psychosocial factors on patients with psoriasis' quality of life and to determine how those factors affect that quality of life.
Methodology: Psoriasis patients in AL-Diwaniyah City were collected from 1-05-2022 through 30-05-2022 for a total of 100 patients. Frequency, and percentage for their demographic data were calculated. Using the SPSS statistical tool, a statistical analysis was done to determine the psychological impact of psoriasis on quality of life.
Result: Men (less than 25 years old) in all age categories made up the majority of study participants. The study sample's educational level was secondary and many had no work. Most psoriasis patients were married and resided in cities. Quality of life was moderate in 71% patients.
Conclusions: The majority of the study sample, or around half of it, was male and within age categories. Quality of life was fair in majority.
Background: Hypertension is the most common risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) , and it frequently coexists with other CVD risk factors and bad lifestyle behaviors such smoking, diabetes, cholesterol, obesity, lack of physical activity, and a poor diet. The objective of the article to identify the assessing the effect Pender's Model in changing employees' eating behaviors suffer hypertension at Mosul University Iraq. Method: A descriptive Cross-sectional design by using approach is conducted to determine the Assess the effect Pender's Model in changing employees' Eating Behaviors suffer hypertension at Mosul university Iraq. A probability simple random sample of 50 male and female employees at Mosul university Iraq. The information was gathered using a questionnaire and analyzed using SPSS version 26. Results: This results of this study that all the concepts of the pander model were (p value) significant, except for the concept of barriers. Conclusion: The study concluded that the assessment through pender's Model showed a positive effect on many health behaviors that affect eating behavior, including perceived benefit, self_efficacy, activity related effect, and supporting family and friends to control hypertension. Keywords: Assessing, effect , Pender's Model, employees', Eating Behaviors, hypertension.
Objective: To investigate the weariness among undergraduate students at Mosul city's universities related to internet addiction.
Methodology: This descriptive cross-sectional study included 600 students from universities in Mosul city. The study was carried out from 22nd of April 2022 until 25th of May 2022. The tool of study involved the internet addiction test with (20) questions. SPSS version 26 was used to analyze the data.
Results: Majority of students were in the age group 20-24 years. The average hours of internet use were between 5-8. We found that 48.7% students had mild internet addiction and 68.2% had fatigue.
Conclusion: Moderate levels of internet addiction and fatigue were found. A strong link between internet addiction and exhaustion were observed.
Substance use disorders (SUD) are a significant health concern worldwide. Substance abuse is a persistent problem linked to high rates of illness and loss. These issues are also responsible for many healthcare workers and health bills. However, the Substance use problems are associated with capitalize health retrogradation, weakness and death due to impacts and exceed. Throughout Iraq, there is growing concern about the effects of violence and war on drug use. To see how effective HBM-based intervention is at changing college students' health beliefs about drug usage. Using a randomized controlled trial approach, experimental design is carried out throughout the current study to determine the efficacy of health beliefs model-based intervention in changing the belief related to substance use among university students in Mosul City from 26-November 2019 to 1-March 2021. The study sample consisted of 80 students who participated in the training program for behavioral change. The intervention for the experimental group involved a health education lecture about substance use. Analyzed data using SPSS, Version 23 using both descriptive statistics and inferential statistics (Means, SD, Number and percentage). These results revealed statistically significant differences among all concepts of the Health Belief Model related to substance use, adding to behavioral motivation, behavioral control and intention) overtime.
On the contrary, the perceived barrier was the only belief that showed no significant changes over time. According to the findings, the design of an HBM-based study could impact students' cognition and conduct in the field of drug dependence. Given the positive association across HBM dimensions and pupils' opinions, notably in "significant advantages and regarded harshness," These beliefs seemed to have a strong connection to each other and the avoidance of alcoholism.
Keywords: Efficacy, Health Beliefs Model, Belief, Substance Use, Students.
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