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Introduction: cholera is an acute diarrheal disease that can cause severe dehydration and death within hours of its onset. The disease has rapid spread and is high mortal. It is mostly due to the lack of proper knowledge about prevention strategies as well as lack of personal hygiene. The Campaign also includes a series of educational activities that will be used to transfer specified information purposes. The aim of this research is to design and implement cholera prevention campaign and evaluate its effectiveness on knowledge, attitudes and practice of students
Method: 282 students were participated in this interventional study. The campaign was conducted for a period of four months using the following methods: pamphlets, banners, video playback, and training classes. After data entry into SPSS v.16, t-test and Mann-Whitney were used to analyze the data
Results: after the campaign, knowledge, attitudes and practice showed a growth of 44.6, 11.8 and 20.6 percent respectively. This study did not show a significant relationship between family size and knowledge of the students. However, there was a significant relationship between parents' level of education and their level of knowledge
Conclusion: cholera prevention campaign had positive effects in knowledge, attitude and practice of the students and prevent health related problems in the society
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Islamic fasting is different from other modes of food deprivation and undoubtedly, it has a different effect on human health and disease states. As pre-diabetes has a relatively high prevalence rate and fasting can have a direct effect on the blood sugar level and other high risk factors, this study was conducted to assess the effect of Islamic fasting on pre-diabetic individuals. This was a semi experimental [pre and post study]. Among 437 pre-diabetic individuals in this center, 191 fasting volunteers entered into this study. Before and after the holy month of Ramadan, blood sugar, cholesterol, triglyceride, weight and blood pressure of the subjects were measured by means of standard methods. We used paired t-test for data analysis. Among 191 pre-diabetic individuals, 155 were female [81.15 percent] and 36 were male [18.85 percent]. Blood sugar, triglyceride and cholesterol levels showed significant differences before and after fasting, whereas systolic and diastolic blood pressure and weight did not show any significant differences. Fasting is not harmful for pre-diabetic individuals and has beneficial effects. Therefore it can be regarded a useful way to prevent diabetes in pre-diabetic people.
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Humans , Male , Female , Islam , Prediabetic StateABSTRACT
Unavoidable stresses are quite often found in human life and at their tolerable levels are to beneficial to psychological activities .However, an inability to tolerate or control unusual and extreme levels of stress may appear as a psychological and/or physiological disorder. The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence effect of planned education programs on alleviation of stress in male high school students. This interventional study was conducted on 70 male high school students living in Dormitory in Servabad town in 2008. The data collecting tool was a disigned questionnaire [korton test] which distributed among the participants. Within two weeks, four training sessions as lecture or interactive meeting were conducted for all students. Data was then analysed by chi-squre, t-test, and Mann-whitney test using SPSS software. Before training courses, the stress rates due to environment or personality disorder were 68.8% and 71.4% respectively. After training courses, these values lowered to 37.1% and 44.3% respectively. Statistical analysis showed that there was a significant relationship between stress due to environment and personality disorders and also with the social class of students. The results of this study showed that requler training courses can reduce significantly the rate of stress in students