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Volume 4, Issue 4 (12-2016)
Abstract
Aim: One of the most significant outcomes of health education is health literacy (HL) so that it must be widely applied for achieving health promotion. The aim of this study was assessing HL and its relationship with using cell phone in adolescents in Mashhad City.
Methods: In this analytic-descriptive research, 445 high school adolescents selected with cluster sampling were assessed. For assessing HL, the Newest Vital Sign (NVS) was used. Cell phone use assessment tool was used for assessing the use of using cell phone. Data were analyzed by SPSS version 16.
Findings: Based on the obtained results, 82.1% and 86.2% of the female and male adolescents had not adequate HL, respectively. There was a negative correlation between the adolescents’ HL and using cell phone (p<0.0001).
Conclusion: Most of the adolescents had limited HL, and the adolescents with higher rate of using cell phone had worse HL score. In fact, adequate HL has a significant role for promoting health in the society. Therefore, policy makers are suggested to design useful educational programs for adolescents, especially in non-medical settings such as schools, was most of the day, adolescents spend their time over there.
Volume 8, Issue 3 (10-2020)
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Aims: Mobile phone use has become increasingly popular among university students. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the status of mobile phone use among university students and its relationship with demographic characteristics.
Instruments & Methods: In this cross-sectional study conducted in 2016, 272 students of Yazd University of Medical Sciences were selected using a 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 Kruskal-Wallis tests.
Findings: There was no significant relationship between students' 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 the education level of university students’ parents and mobile phone use score (p<0.05).
Conclusion: 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.
Volume 10, Issue 4 (9-2022)
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Aims: Mobile phones, which are one of the most essential tools in social and professional life, are rarely disinfected. So, these devices may become contaminated with a variety of bacterial organisms. The aim of this study was to evaluate bacterial contamination and identify all bacterial isolates of mobile phones related to social groups in Kufa Technical Institute and to determine the efficiency of two disinfectants prepared on bacterial species.
Materials & Methods: Fifty-one swab samples of mobile phones were randomly collected from different people in the social groups of Kufa Technical Institute and cultured on selective and enrichment media and incubated at 37°C for 24 hours. Then, the isolated bacteria were identified by gram staining and biochemical tests and confirmed using Vitek 2. Next, two disinfectants were prepared and their inhibitory activity against microbes compared to ethanol alcohol-70% was investigated.
Findings: Ten bacterial species were isolated and identified from mobile phones, which included Staphylococcus aureus (49%), Staphylococcus epidermidis (12%), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (11%), Staphylococcus haemolyticus (6%), Escherichia vulner (6%), Escherichia coli (4%), Klebsiella pneumoniae (4%), Bacillus sp (4%), Pantoea spp (2%), and Cronobacter C sakazakii (2%). Microbial growth was also reduced by the use of disinfectants, the first disinfectant showed a higher inhibitory effect compared to the second disinfectant, while the control disinfectant (ethanol-70%) had no effect on all tested bacteria.
Conclusion: Bacteria colonize cell phones in social groups. Using disinfectants reduces bacterial contamination on the surface of the mobile phone.
Yadullāh Niʿmatī, Hamīd Rizā Vazīr-Zanjānī,
Volume 22, Issue 3 (7-2015)
Abstract
Thedifferent brand personality has a vital and important role in the success of a brand and customers with different personalities prefer brands which have a proportionate and consistent personality with their personality. The fitness and alignment of the consumer personality and brand personality will lead to brand loyalty. Therefore the present study is aimed to assess the relationship between consumer personality traits, brand personality and brand loyalty. This is a descriptive survey study and a questionnaire is used to collect the data. Analysis of the results indicates the validity and reliability of the used questionnaire. The population of the present study consists of the consumers of the mobile phones in Tehran. For data analysis, the SPSS and LISREL software packages are used .Research findings showed that the consumers' personality traits have significant effect on the brand personality; brand personality has significant effect on the brand loyalty, and ultimately consumers' personality traits have significant effect on the brand loyalty in the mobile phone industry. In other words, all of the hypotheses are confirmed.
