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Background: Low Birth Weight (LBW) is one of the most important health indicators in the world. It has certain known and unknown causes. The present study was designed to evaluate the role of socio-behavioral factors on neonatal birth weight.Methods: The current case-control study was conducted on 300 eligible neonates (150 LBW infants as cases and 150 normal body weight infants as controls) in 2015. The national pregnancy care forms of the neonates kept in heath care centers in Kerman were used. The data was analyzed running Independent samples t-test, Chi square test, and Fisher's Exact test in SPSS. The significance level was set as 0.05.Results: Preterm birth (P<0.001), number of primary care during pregnancy (P=0.001), mother's age (P=0.049), consumption of supplements during pregnancy (P=0.03), and history of substance abuse in mothers (P=0.03) were found to have significant roles in having LBW neonate.Conclusion: Identifying the sociobehavioral risk factors of Preterm labor and modifying them to prevent preterm birth are essential approaches to prevent LBW. Governments should pay special attention to nutritional status of teenage and young girls to have healthy mothers and babies in the future. Women of childbearing age should be screened and educated about risky behaviors. Pregnancy care and support should be delivered to all pregnant women according to the standard methods.

Background: Exercise can play an important role in preventing chronic diseases. Given the key role of medical students on public health behaviors, the aim of the present study was to assess physical activity and factors influencing it in medical students of Kerman University of Medical Sciences. Methods: The present cross-sectional study was conducted on 600 medical students of Kerman University of Medical Sciences, using census method, over a six-month period. The valid and reliable self-administrate international physical activity questionnaire was used. Relevant data were fed into IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 20.0. The data were analyzed using chi-square test, ANOVA and multinomial logistic regression. Results: The level of physical activity was low in 275 (53.1%), moderate in 187 (36%), and vigorous in 57 (10.9%) of the participants. Students whose mothers or fathers had freelance jobs were 0.38 (P=0.005) or 0.54 (P=0.033) times less likely to have moderate physical activity compared with those whose mothers or fathers were retired. Students whose fathers had 'lower than diploma' education were 3.15 times more likely to have moderate physical activity (P=0.003). Comparing vigorous to low physical activities, students whose fathers were in governmental jobs were 3.15 times more likely to have vigorous physical activity (P=0.036). Also, students whose fathers had 'lower than diploma' education level were 0.17 times less likely to have vigorous physical activity (P=0.004). Conclusion: Medical students in Iran are not in a good status in terms of physical activity. Considering the decisive role of parents in their children's attitudes towards physical activity, even in college, parent training seems necessary.