Effect of Health Education Intervention on Promoting Healthy Lifestyles for Undergraduate Female Students in Saudi Arabia

University of Putra Malaysia (UPM)

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Physical Inactivity; Obesity

Treatments: Other: Education Intervention; Other: No intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06150248

UPM-PhD Hanan

Details and patient eligibility

About

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Saudi Arabia has seen a more astonishing rise in obesity. Young females have a considerable prevalence of unhealthy dietary practices and lack of knowledge about healthy and energy-dense foods. Additionally, in Saudi Arabia, the levels of physical inactivity ranged from about one-third to as high as 70% of the population. The current study aims to determine the effects of combined health education and motivational message intervention on promoting healthy lifestyles and body composition markers for undergraduate female students who suffer from obesity at Northern Border University in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Full description

A cluster randomized controlled study will be conducted among 250 undergraduate female students aged (18-24) in Northern Border University. The intervention and control faculties will be selected and allocated randomly. The intervention group will have six weeks of fortnightly six sessions (45 minutes), while the control group will have their regular curriculums and normal physical activity routine. The research instruments include socio-demographic characteristics, anthropometric measurements, and questionnaires about knowledge, attitude, and practice of obesity, physical activity, dietary intake, dietary quality, diet and eating behaviour, and disordered eating. Data will be collected from intervention and control groups at baseline, post-intervention, and 3-month follow-up after the intervention. Data will be analyzed by using the (SPSS) software version 26. Descriptive statistics will be used to distribute and summarize the data. A Generalized Estimating Equation (GEE) will be used to test the effect of the intervention program for the selected variables (outcomes) between and within the group at baseline, six weeks, and one month after intervention, which is adjusted for clustering.

Enrollment: 250 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 24 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Female undergraduate students.
• Saudi students.
• Aged between 18-24 years.
• Categorized with a BMI greater than 25.

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnant students
• Students with diseases on treatment such as asthma, diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, fractures, cirrhosis, or other diseases.
• Students with any medical condition who not allowed to do physical activity.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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250 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Other group

Description:

Intervention group: Participants assigned to the intervention group will receive educational intervention program to improve their knowledge and promote lifestyle adherence in terms of healthy diet behaviour and physical activity among the undergraduate students. This program will include educational booklets and educational classes include six weeks of in-person education sessions and six weeks of social media messaging. The course will include six weekly teaching units (lectures and group discussions, 45-60 minutes each): Topic 1: To understand the causes and prevention strategies for overweight and obesity. Topic 2: To understand food based approaches to reduce or prevent overweight and obesity. Topic 3: To understand the importance of regular physical activity. Topic 4: To demonstrate how snacking can be a healthy habit. Topic 5: To learn how to read and interpret food labels. Topic 6: To understand how to prepare healthy meals.

Treatment:

Other: Education Intervention

Control group: No Intervention

Other group

Description:

Participants randomized to the control group in this study will not receive any intervention (They will have their regular curriculums and normal physical activity routine).

Treatment:

Other: No intervention