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    Improving community readiness among Iranian local communities to prevent childhood obesity

    Community Readiness Intervention for Tackling Childhood Obesity (CRITCO) is a theory-based intervention being developed to improve the readiness of an Iranian urban population to engage in childhood obesity pr...

    Mahdieh Niknam, Nasrin Omidvar, Hassan Eini-Zinab, Naser Kalantari in BMC Public Health (2023)

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    Development of a conceptual framework of food and nutrition literacy in children

    This study aimed to develop a conceptual framework to better understand food and nutrition literacy and its dimensions and components among Iranian children.

    Azam Doustmohammadian, Nasrin Omidvar, Nastaran Keshavarz-Mohammadi in BMC Nutrition (2022)

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    Is nutritional functional diversity in the rural food and nutrition system associated with food security and nutrient adequacy? A case study of rural areas of Zahedan district, Iran

    An overlooked problem in food and nutrition system analysis is assuring adequate diversity for a healthy diet. Little is known about nutrient diversity in food and nutrition systems and how it transmits to die...

    Mahdieh Sheikhi, Nasrin Omidvar, Seyed Mehdi Tabatabaei in BMC Public Health (2022)

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    Assessing parents’ self-efficacy to handle child obesity-related behaviors: validation of the Lifestyle Behavior Checklist in Iran

    The aim of the present study was to validate the Lifestyle Behavior Checklist (LBC) questionnaire, to measure Iranian parents' perceptions of their children's weight-related behaviors and their self-efficacy i...

    Nasrin Omidvar, Saba Narmcheshm in Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition (2022)

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    Food and nutrition literacy status and its correlates in Iranian senior high-school students

    Planning interventions to promote food and nutrition literacy (FNL) require a better understanding of the FNL status of the target group and its correlates.

    Marziyeh Ashoori, Nasrin Omidvar, Hassan Eini-Zinab, Elham Shakibazadeh in BMC Nutrition (2021)

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    The efficacy of flaxseed and hesperidin on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: an open-labeled randomized controlled trial

    Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is growing in prevalence globally and no definitive evidence for any approved pharmacological approaches for patients with NAFLD has been found yet. This study was aim...

    Zahra Yari, Makan Cheraghpour in European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2021)