Health Education and Health Promotion
Volume:8 Issue: 3, Summer 2020

Due to the terrible effects of 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) on health systems and the global economy, the necessity to study future trends of the virus outbreaks around the world is seriously felt. Since geographical mobility is a risk factor of the disease, it has spread to most of the countries recently. It, therefore, necessitates to design a decision support model to i) identify the spread pattern of coronavirus and, ii) provide reliable information for the detection of future trends of the virus outbreaks.

The present study adopts a computational intelligence approach to detect the possible trends in the spread of 2019-nCoV in China for a one-month period. Then, a validated model for detecting future trends in the spread of the virus in France is proposed. It uses the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and a combination of ANN and Genetic Algorithm (GA), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Imperialist Competitive Algorithm (ICA) as predictive models.

The models work on the basis of data released from the past and the present days from World Health Organization (WHO). By comparing four proposed models, ANN and GA-ANN achieve a high degree of accuracy in terms of performance indicators.  

The models proposed in this study can be used as decision support tools for managing and controlling of 2019-nCoV outbreaks.

Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by symptoms of hyperactivity, impulsivity and inattention.

The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of various interventions on improvement of symptoms of ADHD.

Participants were 52 ADHD children who were assigned to four experimental and control groups of 13. Data were gathered with strengths and difficulties questionnaire, n-back test and continuous performance test.

The findings showed that the effect of therapeutic interventions on behavioral symptoms, attention and working memory were significant. The maximum effective size was observed to be 0.66 on reaction speed, 0.57 on correct response and then 0.52 on Omission error. The sustainability of interventions in the next stage was significant and different.

  The results indicate that most of the components of attention, working memory and behavioral symptoms in children with ADHD have been improved in all experimental groups.

This study was done to investigate the Effectiveness cognitive effect of visual and auditory memory on improving cognitive flexibility of children with Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder.

This study was a quasi-experimental one which was done by pretest-posttest with control group. The statistical population of this study was all students with Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder in Kermanshah in the academic year of 2018-2019. The sample consisted of 34 people who were selected by randomized sampling and replaced in two equal groups of experimental (17 subjects) and control group (17 subjects). The research tools were: SWAN Qquestionnaire and Stroop Color-word Test. Data was analyzed using mean and standard deviation of Levine test and homogeneity of slope from regression and covariance analysis for study the research hypotheses.

The results of this study showed that cognitive effect of visual and auditory memory could improve the cognitive flexibility with effect size 0.45 in children with Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder at the significant level (P<0.01)

It can be concluded that cognitive of visual and auditory memory training may enhance certain skills in ADHD children, but more research is required to generalize the positive effects of these programs to the other clinical features of ADHD.

addiction is physical, psychological and social illness, where shocking behavior that has destructive consequences, repeats constantly. Addiction is one of the problems of human societies and combat this problem always many losses a lot of energy and money. Jealousy is an unpleasant feeling and inclusive. The nature and the core of jealousy is wishing and trying the to lose favor others. Jealousy is one of the emotions that disrupt the normal functioning of a personchr('39')s life are sometimes endanger her physical and mental health and it is almost important. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the effect the role of jealousy on the causes of tendency toward addiction.

This cross-sectional study was conducted on 100 male addicts referring to addiction treatment centers in Mashhad were selected using random sampling. The instrument was the jealousy and the tendency to an addiction questionnaire. The data were analyzed using SPSS software version 20 and ANOVA, Pearson and Spearman correlation analysis.

The results showed that the mean of age was 32.3±8.5 years and the mean duration of addiction is 10. 42±6.8 years.  The findings also showed that the average score of them were jealous of 102±21.5 and the average score tendency to addiction is 40.3±7.6. Spearman correlation tests showed that there was a significant correlation between the tendency to addiction and jealousy(P<0.001).

The results suggest that jealousy can predict some addiction tendencies.

Spirituality can be an important source of coping with the disease, reduce feelings of suffering and improving quality of life in patients with chronic diseases.  The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship of spirituality with the Perception of suffering and Quality of Life in Patients with Type 2 diabetes.

This was a descriptive-correlation study. Participants were 145 patients with type 2 diabetes of rural health clinics and the valley hospital in khorramshahr city which were selected via stratified random and available sampling methods. Data collection tools were version of 29-item of the spiritual questionnaire (Parsian and Dunning), Experience and Perception of Suffering Questionnaire (Schulz) and version of 26-item of the Quality of Life Questionnaire (WHO). Data were analyzed using SPSS, version 16.0 software and Pearsonchr('39')s correlation, T-test, ANOVA, Post Hoc and Stepwise Regression analytical statistics.

The spirituality average scores were 79.41±15.82, Perception of Suffering average scores, 54.89±2.14 and Quality of Life 74.44±1.65. There was a significant negative relationship between spirituality and feelings of suffering (p<0.05) and significant positive relationship between spirituality and quality of life (p<0.0001).

 A strong correlation between spirituality with quality of life and, Suffering in patients with type II diabetes, demonstrate the roles and responsibilities of healthcare providers, including physicians and nurses and the patientchr('39')s family in meeting the varied spiritual and religious needs of patients along with therapeutic actions. Paying attention to improve spiritual health is also important in education programs for these patients.

Epidemiological transition of acute and infectious diseases to non-communicable ones, aging population, together with rapid lifestyle changes all have given rise to prevalence rate of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Thus, it is of utmost importance to reflect on lifestyles especially in this period. The main purpose of this study was to assess lifestyle in patients affected with myocardial infarction (MI).

This study was cross-sectional study who examining health-related lifestyle behaviors in patients with MI in 2019. To this end, a total number of 176 patients were selected using purposive and convenience sampling methods. The research instrument was also the Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile II (HPLP-II) as a standardized self-report questionnaire. The data analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics software (version 22) and the generalized linear models were used. Moreover, coefficient at significance level less than 0.05.

The results of Wilks’ lambda distribution revealed that the effect of gender on the linear combination of the dependent variable (i.e. lifestyle) was significant and 11.4% of changes in this variable had resulted from variation in gender. Besides, the results demonstrated that health responsibility scores in men were on average 2.703 lower than those obtained by women. This relationship was also significant and its effect size was by 3.3% (p=0.016).

It was concluded that the concept of lifestyle can be an analysis tool to better understand differences between genders, as an effective variable in adopting a healthy lifestyle, especially in patients suffering from MI.

Quality of life is a variable that can be related to a variety of psychological variables.

The purpose of this study is investigation the relationship between family communication model and spiritual intelligence and quality of life among addicts, as well as predict their quality of life based on family communication model and spiritual intelligence.

This research is correlational. The study population consisted of all addicts of Tehran. The sample size of this study was 150 addicts who were studying in the year of 1398. They were selected by purposive sampling method. Data were collected by Kingchr('39')s Spiritual Intelligence Questionnaire (2008), World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale (WHO) and family communication patterns questionnaire (Fitzpatri & Ritchi, 1994). For data analysis correlation and regression have been used. Data were analyzed using software SPSS-22.

The findings indicated that there is a significant relationship between family variables or family patterns, spiritual intelligence and their components with quality of life and its components. 16.8% of the variance in quality of life variables are explained by two variables of family communication patterns and spiritual intelligence.

It is possible to predict the quality of life of students through two variables of family communication patterns and spiritual intelligence.Many of the psychological, environmental and family factors are related to the quality of life of students and one of the most important ones, as the results of this study suggest, are family communication patterns and spiritual intelligence.

Mobile phone use has become increasingly popular among university students. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the status of mobile phone use among university students and its relationship with demographic characteristics.

In this cross-sectional study conducted in 2016, 272 students of Yazd University of Medical Sciences were selected using stratified random sampling method. The data collection tools included demographic information and excessive mobile phone use questionnaire. The data were analyzed by SPSS 16 software using Mann-Whitney and Wilcoxon tests.

There was no significant relationship between studentschr('39') age, gender, education level, and residence place with mobile phone use total score (P>0.05). However, there was a significant relationship between the variables of cigarette smoking, coffee consumption, and listening to music before bedtime with the mobile phone use total score among university students (P<0.05). Moreover, there was a significant relationship between education level of university students’ parents and mobile phone use score (P<0.05).

High value of adequate and correct education of students towards internet and social media addiction, in addition to increase the level of media literacy are critical issues to consider in this regard.