Mohammad Ali Morowatisharifabad; Reza Faryabi; Zabihollah Azami Sardooei; Hossain Fallahzadeh; Mohammad Javad Zare Sakhvidi
Volume 19, Issue 8 , August 2017, , Pages 1-11
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Background: In recent decades, unsafe use of pesticides has caused different cancers in human beings as well as damages to environment and organisms.Objectives: The present study aimed to determine the predictors of safety behavior among greenhouses spray workers in Jiroft city based on Protection Motivation ...
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Background: In recent decades, unsafe use of pesticides has caused different cancers in human beings as well as damages to environment and organisms.Objectives: The present study aimed to determine the predictors of safety behavior among greenhouses spray workers in Jiroft city based on Protection Motivation Theory (PMT).Methods: This cross-sectional study with descriptive-correlation approach was conducted in 2016 on 229 greenhouse spray workers in Jiroft city selected via proportional stratified random sampling using a researcher-made questionnaire. The questionnaire consisted of demographic variables and PMT constructs such as perceived vulnerability, perceived severity, costs, rewards, fear, selfefficacy, response-efficacy, and protection motivation, as well as safety behaviors.Results: All workers were male in the age range of 19 to 72 years, most of whom (47.6%) had previously been poisoned by pesticides. The mean scores of all the PMT constructs were in range of 50% to 75% except for perceived rewards that its mean score was between 75% and 100%. There was a significant correlation between response-efficacy and all the constructs at P < 0.01, except for the perceived rewards that was significant at P < 0.05. Moreover, a significant correlation was found between all the constructs other than perceived rewards and fear (P < 0.01). The predicted amount of spray workers’ preventive behaviors by protection motivation theory constructs was 41% and the role of perceived vulnerability (β = 0.310), perceived severity (β = 0.303), self-efficacy (β = 0.166), and response-efficacy (β = 0.140) was greater than the role of other constructs.Conclusions: Concerning predictive power of protection motivation theory constructs for safety behaviors related to spray workers’ health and due to the important role of perceived vulnerability, perceived severity, self-efficacy, and response-efficacy, educational interventions are necessary for training protective principles to prevent health problems resulted from exposure to pesticides in workers.
Mohammad Ali Morowatisharifabad; Mehdi Khankolabi; Hassan Mozaffari-Khosravi; Hossein Fallahzade; Mohammad Hassan Gerami; Amin Salehi-Abargouei
Volume 19, Issue 3 , March 2017, , Pages 1-7
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Background: The increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity in children has posed some challenges in many countries. There is a relationship between parenting styles, parental feeding practices, and children’s nutritional status.Objectives: This study aimed to apply Authoritative Parenting ...
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Background: The increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity in children has posed some challenges in many countries. There is a relationship between parenting styles, parental feeding practices, and children’s nutritional status.Objectives: This study aimed to apply Authoritative Parenting style Model in children’s nutritional status.Methods: This research was a cross-sectional study conducted on 1000 parents selected by random cluster sampling. Parents who had primary school children aged 7 - 8 years in Bojnord, Iran, completed questionnaires related to the constructs of the model in 2016. Structural Equation Model Model (SEM) analysis was used to test the fit of the model. CMIN/DF, GFI, IFI, CFI, PGFI, PNFI, and RMSEA indices were employed to check the goodness-of-fit.Results: Correctly completed questionnaires were collected from 294 dyads of parents. The mean age was 36.26 years (SD = ±5.38) in fathers and 32.96 years (SD =±4.88) in mothers. 232 mothers (80.5 %) were housewives and only 99 of them (34.4%) had university education. Most fathers were employee (115, 40%) or self-employed (111, 38.5%) and 120 of them (41.7%) had university education. The values of goodness-of-fit were obtained for CMIN/DF = 4.6, GFI = 0.91, CFI = 0.93, IFI = 0.92, PGFI = 0.68, PNFI = 0.77, and RMSEA = 0.07. Nutritional knowledge and attitude directly affected authoritative parenting style (β = 0.21, P < 0.001) and parental feeding practices (β = 0.33, P < 0.001) and indirectly affected children’s nutritional status (β = - 0.01). The authoritative parenting style construct had a direct effect on feeding practices of parents (β = 0.54, P < 0.001) and an indirect effect on children’s nutritional status (β = - 0.01). The feeding practices of parents construct also affected the children’s nutritional status directly (β = - 0.02, P < 0.05).Conclusions: This study indicated that the use of this model in the children’s nutritional status can result in positive outcomes, and this model can make interventions more effective in this regard.
