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Background: In order to promote preventive skin cancer behaviors among high school students an educational program developed applying the PRECEDE Model.  This study describes the process of planning a Skin Cancer Preventive Program (SCPM) designed for high school students in Teheran. Methods: The development of the SCMP started with a comprehensive review of the literature. This included a review of the risk factors, signs, symptoms and burden of skin cancer, its preventive behaviors, and the educational programs designed, previously. Alongside, in order to help inform SCPM development, a cross-sectional survey was applied on a sample of 450 high school students in Tehran, Iran. Findings: In the cross-sectional survey, statistically significant relationships were found between skin cancer preventive behaviors and all other PRECEDE variables except for attitude. Linear regression analysis showed that the independent variables predicted 43% of skin cancer preventive behaviors within which enabling factors was the most significant variable. Conclusion: The PRECEDE component of PRECEDE-PROCEED model was found to be helpful in providing the conceptual framework in order to design the SCPM for high school students in Iran. Further studies are suggested to employ and evaluate the SCPM among high school students.

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Background: According of high prevalence of internet addiction and its numerous consequences among university students and based on importance of theory based educational intervention implementation on prevention and decreasing behavioral disorders such as internet addiction, current study performed to determine the effect of blended educational intervention based on Health Belief model on internet addiction preventing among female university students living in Tehran University of Medical Sciences dormitories. Methods: The present semi-experimental before and after study was performed on 80 female University students with multi stage and cluster sampling in 2012 - 2013.Study instrument included the questionnaires of demographic information and subjects characteristics about internet usage, Young Internet Addiction tool and self-administered questionnaire based on HBM. The validity and reliability of the questionnaire were evaluated by content validity and α test. Blended educational intervention about factors and consequences of internet addiction using various educational strategies and materials such as posters. Collected data were analyzed by SPSS software 16 version. Results were considered significant at conventional P< 0.05 levels. Findings: Response rate was 100 present. Mean of participants__AWT_QUOTE__ age was 22±2.6 years. Marital status had significant association with internet addiction (P=0.03). Study results indicated that Mean score of HBM constructs and knowledge had significant relation before and four months after educational intervention (P< 0.001). On the other hand, internet addiction prevalence decreased from 26.2 to13.8 (P< 0.001).  Conclusion: HBM based education was effective on promoting knowledge and performance related to internet addiction prevention. Study results suggest educational intervention program based on health education and promotion theories which can be operative on preventing and decreasing internet addiction.  

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Background: Healthy behaviors in Alzheimer prevention among at risk are very important. This study aimed to assess the effect of educational program based on Health Belief Model on adopting preventive behaviors in Alzheimer among elders under covering Ardebil health care setting.Methods: This was a quasi-experimental study which was conducted in 2013 among 148 elders who divided into two groups using random allocation sampling method using a valid and reliable questionnaire. Blended educational program was performed some educational strategies such as lecture, group discussion and face to face approach of during three sessions and telephone recall during 6 months. Data collection was conducted in two stages, before and 6 months after the program in the two groups separately. SPSS software version 16 was used for analyzing the collected data. The significant level was considered at less than 0.05.Findings: Mean age of participants were 68/9±7.9 and 68/8±7/6 years in intervention and control groups respectively. There was no significant difference between perceived threatening, perceived severity, perceived benefits and barriers, Cues to Action and performance before intervention (p>0.05). But after educational intervention these changes was significant (p< 0.001). Mean score of knowledge and model constructions had increase significantly (p< 0.001).Also, mean score of performance had increasing significantly (p< 0.001).Conclusion: study results revealed effectiveness of HBM in adopting preventive behaviors among elders about Alzheimer. It has been suggested that intervention program based on HBM usage in other health care setting.