Health Education and Health Promotion
Volume:3 Issue: 1, winter 2015

Aim: Happiness is a very important issue in the life of every human, which is influenced by many closely - related variables. The purpose of the present study is to explore the relationship of quality of life, emotional intelligence and life satisfaction among the students of Zahedan University, Iran.
This descriptive-analytic study was done on 204 students (101 males & 103 females) by using census method. Research tools were quality of life, emotional intelligence and life satisfaction scales. These are valid and reliable scales for use in psychological studies. Data were analyzed using Pearson’s correlatio n and T - tests in SPSS software.
Findings: The research findings showed that emotional intelligence had a significant positive correlation with quality of life (r=.454, p The results indicated that the higher scores of students’ emotional intelligence show the better quality of life they will have. Also quality of life is a variable that increasing students’ satisfaction of life. In order to raise the level of mental health, it is necessary to pay attention to the mentioned variables and educating people.

Aim: Oral health plays a crucial role to general health, and influences individual’s quality of life. This study aimed to determine effe ctive factors on dental health behaviors among Iranian students.
This cross - sectional study was carried out on high school students in the city of Sanandaj (western Iran) from November 2014 to July 2015. An instrument with 35 items was used for da ta collection. It included two sections: socio - demographic characteristics, and 7 domains related to dental health behaviors. Validity and reliability of the questionnaire were confirmed by using face, content and construct validity, and test - retest and Cr onbach''s alpha, respectively. Simple random sampling and systematic random sampling techniques were used to select high school students. Plaque Index (PI) was recorded during the clinical dental examination. Finally, data were entered into the SPSS version 16.0 software and analyzed using ANOVA, Regression logistic, correlation coefficient tests, and independentt- test.
Findings: There were statistically significant correlations between the role of school, fear of dental care, motivational beliefs, and valu e of teeth (P The results showed that social, environmental, policy and individual factors had distinctive influences on oral health - related behaviors and decreasing dental plaque. It is very important that dental health programs should be designed according to these factors.

Aim: Depression symptoms play a major role in eating disorders; however, research shows that non - adaptive emotion regulation strategy is also associated with depression symptoms. The current study examined the mediating role of the emotion regulation strategy on the relationship between depression symptom and disordered eating among students.
This cross - sectional study was conducted in 2014 on a sample of 264 female students at Allameh Tabatabaie University, according to Morgan and Cluster samplings. The participants completed the questionnaires of depression, emotion regulation and eating attitudes test. The data were analyzed by SPSS software using coefficient correlation and stepwise regression. Statistical differences were considered significant at PFindings: The results showed that there was a significant correlation among emotion regulation difficulties, depression symptom and disordered eating (p According to the findings of the present study, examining the role of emotion regulation strategies on the relationship between depression symptoms and eating disorders indicated that eating disorder is the regulating mechanism in reducing depression.

Aim: Considering the fundamental role of parent's function and family dynamics including the importance role of family communication pattern on preventing early - onset substance use in children, the present study aimed to determine the correlation between family communication pattern and mother's preventive behavioral intentionregardingpreventing early - onset substance use in children.
This cross - sectional study was carried out among 234 Iranian mothers in Tehran who were randoml y selected to participate voluntarily in the study. The participants filled out a self - administered questionnaire including I - demographic information; II - family - based behavioral intention regarding preventing early - onset substance use in children; and I II - family communication pattern. Data were analyzed by the SPSS software (ver. 21.0) using Pearson's correlations, independent t - test, and ANOVA at 95% significant level.
Findings: The results reported a correlation between conversation (r=0.509**& P≥0.00 1), conformity orientation (r= - 0.150*& P=0.022) and behavioral intention; as well as between conversation conformity orientation (r= - 0.382*& P≥0.001), and conversation (r=0.218**& P=0.001), conformity orientation (r= - 0.105& P=0.108) and age.
The findings suggest that to develop a preventive program, it will be useful to increase family communication pattern, specially conversation orientation to prevent the onset of substance use in children.

Aim: The center of family around the mother and her presence or absence can effect on the emotional intelligence and mental health of students. In other words, working mothers inside or outside home have different effects on both the boy and girl students. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the relationship bet ween emotional intelligence and mental health of students with working and non - working mothers.
This cross - sectional study was conducted on a population consisting of all high school girls and boys in the city (total n=140). Data were gathered by a questionnaire. After verifying the validity and reliability, the data were collected, and analyzed using SPSS18 and descriptive statistics.
Findings: The findings indicate that mothers’ employment brings no negative and positive consequences for emotiona l intelligence and mental health, though it positively affects students’ educational performance. Results also revealed that the adolescent children of employed mothers had high emotional intelligence. The female children of employed mothers showed more em otional intelligence, while there were no gender differences in the emotional intelligence of adolescent children of homemakers.
The research finding revealed that boys and girls with working mothers have low mental health, this results approve s that presence of mother at home is necessary.

Aim: This is a cross - sectional study to assess low back pain preventive behaviors among Iranians nursing aides who provide direct patient care in hospitals. Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) comprise significant occupational injuries and disabilities within the nursing profession. Studies show that implementing a safe patient handling can prevent low back pain among nursing aides.
This study was conducted in Qom (Iran) in 2015 with a sample of 452 eligible nursing aides working in six educational hospitals affiliated with Qom University of Medical Scienc es. Data were collected by a researcher - developed questionnaire with 29 questions in two sections of demographic questions (17 items), and low back pain preventive behaviors were adopted from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) guideli nes for nurses (12 items).
Findings: Totally, 452 nursing aides suffering from chronic low back pain participated in the study, which included 289 males (63.9%) and 163 females (36.6%) with mean age of 37.71 (SD = 8.3) years. The mean score of applying low back pain preventive behaviors was 32.9 ± 7.7. Fifty nine participants (13.1%) had poor behavior scores, 251 participants (55.5 %) obtained average scores, and 142 participants (31.4 %) achieved acceptable scores due to their preventive behaviors. The maj ority of the studied nursing aides (68.6%) did not consistently perform safe patient handling.
This study showed that most nursing aides had low preventive behaviors regarding maintaining their body mechanics. Thus, evaluating the causes of fai ling to do safe behaviors /safe patient handling is strongly recommended in Iran.