The mean age of participants was 49 (SD: 3.27.) years old, 87.2% were married, and 19.2% were illiterate.
The results showed that the enabling factors like adopting to go on a diet and the educational classes facilitated
by the staff had significant effects on health care behavior of the patients. Furthermore 69.2% of the participants
adopted to go on a diet before the educational sessions; that figure increased to 94.9% after the educational
sessions. According to the results the mean scores for the knowledge, attitude, and behavior, reinforcement
factors and enabling factors increased significantly after of the educational intervention (p- value >0.001).