Effectiveness of Health Literacy Education (HL)

Ayşegül Akca

Status: Completed

Conditions: Health Literacy Level

Treatments: Other: Health Literacy Education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04868487

2018-455

Details and patient eligibility

About

To determine the effect of health literacy education given to nursing students. The study was conducted at two university nursing departments in Turkey between December 2018 and March 2019. A total of 206 nursing students, 103 in the intervention and 103 in the control group, were included in the study. Health literacy education, consisting of four sessions, was given to the intervention group.

Enrollment: 206 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 32 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Inadequate (0-25 points) health literacy level
• Problematic-limited (25-33 points) health literacy level
• Accepting to participate in the research
• Accepting to participate in the research

Exclusion criteria

• Adequate (33-42 points) health literacy level
• Excellent (42-50 points) health literacy level
• Foreign language students with limited language proficiency
• Visual-hearing disability
• Having a neuropsychiatric disease

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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206 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention group received four weekly training sessions of health literacy education. Each educational session lasted an average of 50 minutes. The students were divided into four groups with an average of 25 students in each group.

Treatment:

Other: Health Literacy Education

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group had no educational interaction with the researcher after the pre-test. The control group was administered the one-week and three-month posttest THLS-32 by the researcher simultaneously with the intervention group.