The Effect of Health Literacy Based Practices

Ayşegül Akca

Status: Completed

Conditions: Health Literacy Level

Treatments: Other: Health literacy based motivaonal interview; Other: Health literacy based health education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05677854

2022 - 042

Details and patient eligibility

About

It is important to adopt healthy lifestyle behaviors such as nutrition and physical activity in adolescence. Health literacy, which is the competence of adolescents to participate in their own health decisions and takes responsibility for health, needs to be developed. Developing healthy nutrition and physical activity behaviors with a focus on health literacy is important in terms of maintaining the desired behavior in adulthood. This study aims to examine the effects of health literacy-based motivational interviewing and health education on nutrition and exercise behaviors of adolescents. The research will be conducted with a single-blind randomized controlled experimental design. The population of the research consists of ninth-grade students. It is planned to include 72 people in the research sample according to the power analysis calculation. The research will be carried out with two intervention groups as motivational interview and health education and a control group.

Enrollment: 63 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 14 to 15 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Continuing education in 9th grade
• Volunteering to participate in the research
• Permission by their families to participate in the research
• Being at a low or moderate level of health literacy according to the Health Literacy Scale for School-Age Children

Exclusion criteria

• Have a chronic illness
• Dieting within a program
• Doing regular physical activity
• Having a high level of health literacy according to the Health Literacy Scale for School-Age Children

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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63 participants in 3 patient groups

Motivational interview

Experimental group

Description:

Motivational interviewing, consisting of 6 sessions with a one-week interval, was applied face to face to this intervention group. Each motivational interview lasted approximately 40 minutes.

Treatment:

Other: Health literacy based motivaonal interview

Health education

Experimental group

Description:

Health education consisting of 6 sessions, one week apart, was administered face to face to this intervention group. Each training session lasted approximately 40 minutes.

Treatment:

Other: Health literacy based health education

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention has been made.