the Effectiveness of Health Literacy Intervention Among Middle Eastern Adolescents in Malaysia

University of Malaya

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Adolescents Obesity

Treatments: Other: Education Intervention; Other: No Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05694143

UM-PhD Hanan

Details and patient eligibility

About

In Malaysia, Middle Eastern adolescents are going through changes in living status, yet few studies show that overweight and obesity are prevalent among Arabic secondary school students. There have not been any intervention studies among Middle Eastern adolescents in Malaysia. The current study aims to determine the effects of an intervention program on physical activity and healthy diet behavior among Middle Eastern adolescent students in Arabic schools in Malaysia

Full description

A cluster randomized controlled study will be conducted among 250 Middle Eastern adolescent students in Arabic schools in Malaysia. The intervention and control schools 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. Anthropometric questionnaires include knowledge, attitude, and practice of lifestyle, physical activity, adolescent sedentary activity, food assessment, and health belief model questionnaire. Data will be collected from intervention and control groups at baseline, post-intervention, and tow month follow-up after the intervention. Data will be analyzed by using the (SPSS) software version 25. Descriptive statistics will be used to distribute and summarize the data. The normality of variables will be tested by The Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and the Skewness & Kurtosis test. A P-value < 0.05 will be considered statistically significant. One Way ANOVA will be used to determine whether any significant within group differences existed over time for the selected variables if the data is normally distributed, while Friedman's test will be used if the data is not normally distributed. Generalized Estimating Equation (GEE) will be used to test the effect of the intervention program for the selected variables (outcomes) between & within-group at baseline, six weeks, and one month after intervention which is adjusted for clustering

Enrollment: 250 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 13 to 14 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Arabic citizen students
• Aged 13 to 14 years
• Who at least one of their parents consented to participate in the study.

Exclusion criteria

• Students with diseases such as asthma, diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, fractures, cirrhosis, or other diseases.
• Students with any medical condition who are 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 both will receive educational intervention including educational booklet will be distributed to the participants in the first session, and they will be asked to take it home and read it within one week. The booklet's content will include the risk factors of NCD and the benefits of adopting a healthy diet and physical activity in reducing overweight and obesity. Then, the educational classes will include six weekly teaching units. The general objective is to prevent obesity among students by delivering education and behavioural skills. The training units will be carried out in the schools. Each training unit will end with activities. The adolescents will learn more about their susceptibility to obesity and weight gain and how to make better decisions and feel better about themselves through these activities.

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