Development and validation of a questionnaire based on the protection motivation theory to predict cigarette smoking preventive behavior in the Iranian university students

• Main Authors: Salime Zare Abdollahi (Author), Seyed Saeed Mazloomy Mahmoodabad (Author), Mohammad Hasan Lotfi (Author), Seyed Mojtaba Yassini Ardakani (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: Prevention of smoking is very important at a young age and during the student period. Because of the lack of a questionnaire based on the prevention of smoking behavior, this study was conducted to design and standardize a tool according to the protection motivation theory (PMT). MATERIA...