The Health-Promoting Behavior and Related Factors Among Home Care Attendants

• Conditions: Health Promotion
• Interventions: Behavioral: Questionnaire

• Registration Number: NCT05482685
• Lead Sponsor: National Taiwan University Hospital

Brief Summary

Background: With the trend of aging population and increasing demand for long-term care, Taiwan's long-term care 2.0 policy places special emphasis on home care services to achieve the goal of local aging. This study focused on the health-promoting behaviors home care attendants and applied Pender's health promotion model theory to investigate the impact of home care attendants' self-perceived health and health literacy on health-promoting behaviors.

Objective: To investigate the current status of home care attendants' health-promoting behaviors and the correlation between self-perceived health and health literacy.

Methodology: A structured questionnaire was used to collect data from 150 eligible home care attendants in the northern region using self-perceived health, health literacy, and health-promoting behaviors scales. Multiple regression analysis was used to analyze the correlation between the independent variables and the dependent variables.

Expected contribution: The results of this study will help to understand the current status of health-promoting behaviors of home care attendants and the correlation with their self-perceived health and health literacy. It will also help to understand whether home care attendants have sufficient health literacy to maintain or improve their health status, and to understand the areas in which home care attendants' health-promoting behaviors are still inadequate, so as to suggest effective methods or strategies to improve health-promoting behaviors in the future.

Detailed Description

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Basic Information
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Study & Design
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Trial Locations

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2022-07
• Study First Submitted: 2022-07-29
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-07-29
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-07-29
• Study Start: 2022-07-30
• Study First Posted: 2022-08-01
• Last Update Posted: 2022-08-01
• Primary Completion: 2023-06-30
• Study Completion: 2023-06-30

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 150

Inclusion Criteria

1. have license or have received training and a certificate of completion.
2. have been working in home care for at least three months
3. agree to participate in the study.

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Exclusion Criteria

1. under 20 years of age.
2. non-national.

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Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Demographic variables	Questionnaire	Include gender, age, BMI, education level, marital status, attended health promotion program or not, average monthly income, years of experience, average hours of work per week, chronic illness, smoking habit, drinking habit
health literacy	Questionnaire	The number of points scored by completing the scale
self-perceived health	Questionnaire	The number of points scored by completing the scale
health-promoting behavior	Questionnaire	The number of points scored by completing the scale

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Survey questionnaire	10 minutes	Understand the current status of health-promoting behaviors of home care attendants and the correlation with their self-perceived health and health literacy.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

National Taiwan University Hospital; 🇨🇳 Taipei, Taiwan