Application of Health Empowerment Theory to Enhance Health Empowerment Levels and Self-Health Management Ability Among Older Migrants: A Randomized Controlled Trial

TianLe Xiang

Status

Completed

Conditions

Health Self-management

Treatments

Behavioral: routine community care

Behavioral: The Health Empowerment Theory (HET) program

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06914739

2022011

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a theory-based health self-management program in empowering older migrants to manage their health. This study used a single-blind, randomized controlled trial design. A comparison was conducted between the experimental and control groups in terms of pre-test and post-test levels of health empowerment and health self-management abilities.

Enrollment

66 patients

Sex

All

Ages

60+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

(1) age 60 years or older; (2) residing in thelocal area for a minimum of six months; (3) agreement to participate in the study and willingness tosign the informed consent form; and (4) possessing a clear sense of autonomy and the ability tounderstand and engage with the content of the study intervention activities.

Exclusion criteria

(1) absencefrom two consecutive lectures or group activities without prior notification and (2) voluntary withdrawal from the study at the participant's request.