Background Access to reliable and credible health information improves individuals’ personal care level in crises, such as the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic. It subsequently results in enhancing the community's health and reducing the health system's costs. Objectives This study aimed to investigate the COVID‐19 related information seeking behaviour demonstrated by citizens in Isfahan, Iran. Methods This research was conducted in 2020 and employed a qualitative approach using conventional content analysis. The research population was selected from almost different social classes of people in Iran using purposive sampling. The saturation point was reached at 24 semi‐structured interviews. The data's soundness was confirmed based on the criteria of credibility, confirmability, dependability and transferability proposed by Guba and Lincoln. Results The findings revealed five subcategories and 25 codes within the information seeking behaviour. The subcategories included attitude towards the COVID‐19 crisis, information needs, information resources, information validation and information seeking barriers. Conclusion People seek information from various resources to update their knowledge and become more prepared in the face of COVID‐19. The findings can be used to develop policies on informing and preventing the dissemination of false information in crises, such as the COVID‐19 crisis.

Government subsidies have been a major concern in many developing countries and they could create major problems such as increase in smuggling, lack of interest in investment, etc. During the past couple of years, the government of Iran decided to eliminate subsidies in different goods such as energy prices and food. In this paper, we present a survey to measure the impacts of such deregulation on Iranian economic factors including inflation, unemployment, tuition fee, consumer consumption pattern and city transportation facilities. The survey distributes a questionnaire among 51 university students aged 20 to 26 in Likert scale. We have used Pearson correlation test to study the relationship between deregulation on government subsidies and other mentioned factors. The results of the survey indicate that there is a meaningful relationship between government subsidies and unemployment, transportation facilities, consumer consumption pattern. However, the survey does not find sufficient evidence to believe that there is any relationship between government subsidies and inflation, increase in tuition fee.

Fashion plays an important role on lifestyle and many people spend their money proportion to fashion changes. In this paper, we present an empirical study among students who attend some private schools in Iran. The study investigates whether there is any correlation between fashion consciousness as well as fashion practices and national identity, university student gender and mass media. The proposed study designs a questionnaire and distributes among 384 students who attend university and analyze the results using Pearson correlation test. The results indicate that there is a positive correlation between national consciousness and fashion, a positive correlation between using mass media applications and fashion. However, the results of the study do not indicate any significance correlation between fashion and mixture of students in terms of gender.

Drug addiction is one of the most important issues in developing countries and it has become a serious issue, which has impacted social health, significantly. In this paper, we study the relationship between age, gender and residential status with drug addiction. The study chooses a sample of 900 people where 450 were female, 450 were male, and all the residence lived in province of Esfahan, Iran. In our survey, two third of the surveyed people were living in cities and only one third of the surveyed people were residing in rural areas. The results of our survey have indicated that there were some positive relationship between age and addiction to drugs and between gender and addiction to drugs (Sig=0.04). In other words, older people will more likely to go for drug addiction. In addition, men tend to get addicted more than women do (Sig=0.03). However, there is no evidence to believe that residential status had any impact on addiction to drugs.

This paper presents an investigation on deaf students' interests in spending their leisure times. We design a questionnaire and distribute among all deaf students who are enrolled in high schools in two provinces of Iran. The questionnaire consists of three parts, in the first part, we ask female and male deaf students about their interests in various entertainment activities in Likert scale. In terms of gender, we find out that walking inside or outside house is number one favorite exercise for female students while male students mostly prefer to walk on the streets. Although male students prefer to go biking or running activities, female students prefer to go for picnic or similar activities. This could be due to limitations on female for running or biking inside cities. While going to picnic with members of family or friends is the third popular activity for male students, stretching exercises is third most popular activity among female students. Breathing exercise is the fourth most popular activity among both male and female students. The second part of the survey is associated with the barriers for having no exercise among deaf students. According to our survey, while lack of good attention from public and ordinary people on exercising deaf students is believed to be number one barrier among male students, female students blame lack of transportation facilities as the most important barrier. However, both female and male students believe these two items are the most important factors preventing them to exercise. Lack of awareness for exercising deaf students and lack of good recreational facilities are the third most important barriers among male and female students.