effect of health belief model educational program and jogging on control of sugar in type 2 diabetic patients

Researchers believe that most of diabetic patients are not necessarily aware of the role of exercises, especially jogging in controlling their disease. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of educational program and jogging based on health belief model [HBM] on sugar control in type 2 diabetic patients. One hundred diabetic [type 2] patients were involved in this prospective quasi- experimental interventional study. Patients were randomly divided into two groups of experimental and control. Data was collected using a questionnaire based on the HBM model, a check list for patient`s practices and a check list for recording the patient`s hemoglobin [HbA1C] and fasting blood sugar [FBS] levels. Our findings indicated that after intervention, there was a significant difference between the mean score of the HBM model variables [susceptibility, severity, benefit and perceived obstacles,] in the experimental group compared to the control group. Additionally, behavioral jogging, level of HbA1C and FBS levels improved significantly among the experimental group when compared to the control group. Applying the HBM model was found to be a very effective means for developing an educational program of jogging for diabetics, in order to control their blood sugar

study of training influence on the knowledge of the female students of Shiraz University dormitories about breast and cervix cancer screening examinations

The effect of screening and early diagnosis of the breast and cervix cancer on increasing the survival and life quality of patients has been proven. The awareness of the young women of screening examination for such cancers is very helpful on early diagnosis and good prognosis. This study has been carried out to determine the effect of training the female students on breast and cervix cancer screening examinations in Shiraz [medical and non-medical sciences] universities dormitory. This interventional case-control study has been done on 400 students. Simple random sampling was applied for the selection of the dormitory female students. The intervention tool was an educational pamphlet. Data was collected by a questionnaire before and after the intervention, data was analyzed by descriptive statistics, t-test and Chi-suare with confidence interval of 95%. The mean point of controls was 10.54 in pre-test and 11.50 in post-test. This was not statistically significant [P=0.12]. The mean point of cases was 8.96 in pre-test and increased to 13.96 in post-test. This was statistically significant [P<0.001]. Before and after intervention, medical students had more knowledge than others. Non-medical students had acquired much more information from the pamphlet [58.9%]. The educational effect of the pamphlet on the student's knowledge has been observed. Thus, the expansion of medical training to target groups, especially non-medical students is recommended. It is proposed that health care managers apply this simple tool to expand the community health behavior