en تخصصي Special پژوهشي Research Article <aside style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Arial; word-wrap: break-word; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 11px;"> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; font-weight: 700;">Background:</span>&nbsp;Studies have shown the high prevalence rate of behavioral disorders in primary school students, which can underlie many complications and problems for the students as well as their families.</p> </aside> <aside style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Arial; word-wrap: break-word; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 11px;"> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; font-weight: 700;">Objectives:</span>&nbsp;The aim of this study was determined by prevalence and socio-demographic factors related with behavioral disorders among primary school students.</p> </aside> <aside style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Arial; word-wrap: break-word; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 11px;"> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; font-weight: 700;">Methods:</span>&nbsp;This is a cross-sectional study, which has been done among 350 primary school students in the city of Abadan, in the southwest of Iran. Samples have been selected based on simple random sampling among the teachers, and the Rutter behavioural disorder questionnaire (teacher form) was used for the data collection self-questionnaire. Data were analysed by SPSS version 21 using appropriate statistical tests including logistic regression at a 95% significant level.</p> </aside> <aside style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Arial; word-wrap: break-word; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 11px;"> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; font-weight: 700;">Results:</span>&nbsp;Our findings indicated 15.8% of participants have behavioral disorders. Males, parents&rsquo; divorce, lower number of family members, as well as mothers&rsquo; educational level lower were the best predictive factors of behavioral disorders among participants.</p> </aside> <aside style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, Arial; word-wrap: break-word; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 11px;"> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; font-weight: 700;">Conclusions:</span>&nbsp;Based on our finding, the prevalence of behavioral disorders was 15.8 %, it seems that designing and implementation of a behavioral disorders prevention program among primary school student is necessary.</p> </aside> Behavior, Health Psychology, Social Psychology, Prevention 9 12 http://ajnpp.umsha.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-2-66&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Farzad Jalilian 1003194753284600320 1003194753284600320 No Department of Public Health, School of Health, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran Mehdi Mirzaei-Alavijeh 1003194753284600321 1003194753284600321 No Department of Public Health, School of Health, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran Mohammad Ismail Motlagh 1003194753284600322 1003194753284600322 No Department of Pediatrics, Faculty Medicine, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran Seyyed Nasrollah Hosseini 1003194753284600323 1003194753284600323 No Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran Mohammad Fattahi 1003194753284600324 1003194753284600324 No Abadan School of Medical Sciences, Abadan, Iran Mohammad Mahboubi mm59m@yahoo.com 1003194753284600325 1003194753284600325 Yes Abadan School of Medical Sciences, Abadan, Iran