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Background and Objective: Water is one of the most valuable environmental factors that has become one of the greatest challenges of human society today. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between religious attitudes toward water saving in high school students in Yazd.
Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in 2018. 600 subjects (300 girls and 300 boys) were selected by random sampling method. The data collection tool was a questionnaire on water saving tendency including 21 questions and Religious attitude questionnaire including 60 questions. The score range for the religious attitude and the tendency to save water was 60-300 and 21-105, respectively. Data were entered into SPSS18 software and analyzed using Chi-square, Pearson correlation coefficient and descriptive statistics.
Results: The mean and standard deviation of the religious attitude score and the tendency to save water consumption were 180.11 ± 14.31 and 65.27 ± 10.21, respectively. The religious attitude of students with age and gender, and the tendency toward water saving with gender variables and number of family members was significant (p<0.05). Correlation between religious attitude and tendency to water saving was statistically significant (r=0.69, p=0.01)
Conclusion: Considering the positive correlation between religious attitude and tendency towards water saving, efforts to strengthen religious and moral inputs related to water consumption in students can lead to the development of an optimal water consumption attitude in this influential community of a society.
 

Background and Objective: Understanding the area of study stimulates the student. Therefore, students should pick their field of study with more information so that they get more engaged in it to complete the responsibilities assigned in the future as well as possible. The purpose of this study was to ascertain the attitude of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences environmental health students regarding their field of study and potential future careers.
Materials and Methods: This study was a cross-sectional, descriptive research study on medical education. In this study, 120 students studying environmental health engineering at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences had their attitudes and knowledge assessed using a questionnaire created by the University of Minnesota, America, and the results were then analyzed using chi-square and t-tests.
Results: According to the research's findings, more than 80% of students chose their field of study without having any prior knowledge of it, more than 90% did not place it among their top priorities, and 80% claimed that their field of study depended on whether or not their employment position is acceptable.
Conclusion: According to the data, the majority of students had an unfavorable perception about entering this field. As a result, it is necessary to thoroughly present this discipline to students before they begin studying it, as well as to update its subject headings to better meet societal demands.

Background and Objective: Smoking is one of the biggest public health problems in the world, which can increase the overall burden of disease in the world. Since understanding the factors related to smoking among medical students is considered an important and necessary factor for formulating and explaining educational intervention programs, therefore, this study was conducted determine the prevalence of smoking among students of Kashan University of Medical Sciences and the factors related to it.
Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 681 students of Kashan University of Medical Sciences in the first semester of 2018 by simple random sampling. Smoking in individuals, family, close friends, and other demographic characteristics was measured using a questionnaire with good reliability and multiple logistic regression was used for statistical analysis.
Results: The average age of the participants in this study (313 male and 368 female students) was 25 ±4.2 years old. The prevalence of smoking among students was 9.4% (16.7% in boys and 3.35% in girls). Also, smoking had a significant relationship with the desire to smoke, living in a dormitory, having close friends who smoke, and family members with a history of smoking (p<0.05).
Conclusion: The academic drop of students who smoke is significantly higher than other students. Since this study has shown the factors related to smoking in students, the use of these findings can be a basis for the prevention of smoking and the development of preventive interventions.