Vahid Ranaei; Soudabeh Yarmohammadi; Leyla Alizadeh; Sakineh Dadipoor; Zahra Pilevar; Teamur Aghamolaei
Volume 4, Issue 3 , September 2021, , Pages 13-18
Abstract
The zoonotic 2019-nCoV is driving an apparent rapid spread among human populations. Apart from deaths and disabilities, the social and economic downturn of viral spread is inevitable. Currently, there isn't any specific vaccine or treatment and there is an urgent need for early interventions ...
Read More
The zoonotic 2019-nCoV is driving an apparent rapid spread among human populations. Apart from deaths and disabilities, the social and economic downturn of viral spread is inevitable. Currently, there isn't any specific vaccine or treatment and there is an urgent need for early interventions based on available information about the subject. In this review article, after an introduction to 2019-nCoV outbreak and behavioral changes, the role of health care workers, universities, and the government is reviewed. In addition, the personal and social controlling behaviors associated with 2019-nCoV disease are comprehensively discussed. Given that medical teams are expected to treat the patients by working for long hours and scarifying their lives, concurrently, sectors such as government, university and health care workers have a critical role in prevention and control measures. Pandemics require changing of social and personal behaviors regarding socialization, hygiene, etc. Implementation of vigilant controlling measures associated with personal and social behaviors such as timely dissemination of accurate information, early identification, and isolation of people who have 2019-nCoV disease, quarantine, stopping mass gatherings, providing advanced remote medical treatments, and education of personal hygiene seems to be the most efficient interventions to contain the pandemic of 2019-nCoV. Personal and social preventive behaviors suppress the peak and slowdowns the rapid spread of outbreaks until effective drugs and vaccines become available.
Vahid Ranaei; Soudabeh Yarmohammadi; Leyla Alizadeh; Sakineh Dadipoor; Zahra Pilevar; Teamur Aghamolaei
Volume 4, Issue 2 , April 2021, , Pages 21-27
Abstract
One sixth of the diseases in all countries of the world are found to be caused by malnutrition and improper food selection at different times and under various conditions. In this study, we aimed to investigate the effect of interventions based on the protection motivation theory on healthy eating behaviors ...
Read More
One sixth of the diseases in all countries of the world are found to be caused by malnutrition and improper food selection at different times and under various conditions. In this study, we aimed to investigate the effect of interventions based on the protection motivation theory on healthy eating behaviors in a systematic way. All articles were systematically retrieved from information sources, including Persian databases of Iran-Medex and SID as well as English databases as PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, ScienceDirect, and Google Scholar. The keywords were as follows: healthy eating behavior, protection motivation theory, behavior, healthy nutrition and intervention. In the first search, 247 articles were obtained. After reviewing them in terms of the inclusion criteria, 8 articles were included in this study. The duration of the intervention was between 1 week and 24 months and the nutritional behaviors of the individuals were studied during this period. Lectures, questions and answers, the use of telephone calls and paper educational messages, and food were often used in the context of information transfer. The results indicate the effectiveness of protection motivation theory on improving the nutritional behaviors of individuals. The results of the previous intervention studies indicated that the greater the perceived barriers to protective behavior, the less motivated a person in performing protective behaviors. A positive and statistically significant correlation was also found between self-efficacy and protection motivation in the investigated studies
