The Effect of Health Literacy Education

Gazi University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Health Literacy Level

Treatments: Other: Education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06231667

2022/07.03.2022

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study was conducted with a parallel group randomized controlled experimental design to evaluate the effect of health literacy education given in early adolescence on the health literacy of adolescents. The population of the study consisted of 6th and 7th grade (12-13 years old) students studying in a secondary school in Ankara. Power analysis was used to determine the sample size. A total of 80 adolescents who met the inclusion criteria were included in the sample.

Enrollment: 80 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 13 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Consent by the student's family
• Volunteering to participate in the research
• Having a low level of health literacy

Exclusion criteria

• Read and write Turkish
• Have a moderate or high level of health literacy
• Physical/mental disability or illness

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

Education

Experimental group

Description:

The health literacy training was implemented in a total of 4 sessions, each session lasting 30 minutes, with an interval of one week. Various teaching methods and techniques were used in the trainings.

Treatment:

Other: Education

Control

No Intervention group