Digital Health Literacy Intervention for Disadvantaged Women During Corona

Forman Christian College, Pakistan

Status: Completed

Conditions: Health Literacy

Treatments: Behavioral: Digital Health Literacy Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT04603092

FormanChristianC

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim is to deliver a digital health literacy intervention to disadvantaged women to improve their health behaviors with regard to (i) hygiene and sanitation, and (ii) coronavirus awareness and prevention in four provinces of Pakistan through women community health workers.

Full description

There is a need to continue primary healthcare services through digital communication for disadvantaged women living in underdeveloped areas of Pakistan, especially in the age of coronavirus pandemic, social distancing, and lockdown of communities. This project will be the first of its kind in aiming to provide women with a smartphone and digital access for a digital health literacy intervention through community healthcare workers. The majority of poor women in Pakistan who are dependent on primary health services: 1. suffer from health challenges more than men due to multiple social and structural disadvantages, 2. are the dominant care-providers and nurturers in the home, and 3. need support in understanding public health messages during health crises due to low health literacy and awareness. The digital health literacy intervention will be delivered in target two areas: (i) hygiene and sanitation, and (ii) coronavirus awareness and prevention. Women will be sampled from disadvantaged areas across the four provinces of Pakistan- Baluchistan, KPK, Punjab, and Sindh. A target of 1,000 women will comprise the sample with 500 women each assigned to the control and experiment group.

Enrollment: 1,010 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 15 to 49 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Disadvantaged women dependent on primary healthcare services
• Women of the reproductive age group, 15 years to 49 years

Exclusion criteria

• Women above 49 years

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,010 participants in 2 patient groups

Disadvantaged women in primary setting receiving digital health literacy intervention

Experimental group

Description:

The study population will comprise of disadvantaged women dependent on primary healthcare services, who do not have access to digital tools (smartphone, computer, laptop) or Wifi in their home. This group will receive the digital health literacy intervention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Digital Health Literacy Intervention

Disadvantaged women in primary setting not receiving digital health literacy intervention

No Intervention group

Description:

The study population will comprise of disadvantaged women dependent on primary healthcare services, who do not have access to digital tools (smartphone, computer, laptop) or Wifi in their home. This control group will not receive the digital health literacy intervention.