Effectiveness and Mechanisms of Lifestyle Intervention for College Students: Competence for Lifestyle Change, Occupational Balance, Perceived Health, and Well-being
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 进行中（未招募）
- 入组人数
- 300
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Stages of Change Ladder
研究概览
简要总结
The goal of this trial is to test the effectiveness and learn about the mechanisms and effectiveness of lifestyle intervention for college students. The main questions it aims to answer are:
- Is the lifestyle course for college students effective in improving the skills and confidence for changing lifestyle, occupational balance, perceived health, as well as well-being for college students?
- What are the mechanisms between the course design and the students' learning?
Participants will join a 9-week online course that aims to facilitate college students to create health-promoting and satisfying habits and routines. Potentially a mixed format of online and in-person course design will be applied, depending on the university requirements and student feedback. Researchers will compare the experimental group and control group to see if the lifestyle tele-course improves college students' skills and confidence for changing lifestyle, occupational balance, perceived health, as well as well-being.
详细描述
- Background:
College students demonstrate a need for enhanced engagement in health-related lifestyles, including physical activities, nutritional behaviors, and stress management. In addition, past surveys reported that college students are frequently faced with adjustment problems in time management, a propensity for oversleeping, irregular sleep patterns, lack of life focus, ineffective study habits, academic stress, lack of motivation for studying, poor physical stamina, and easily experience fatigue in their functional arrangements. These lifestyle-related challenges can compromise health and quality of life. Although many college students have tried hard to "make changes" to their daily life, only some of them smoothly make the change.
Our pilot study found that "Occupation and Health Promotion," a practice-oriented 8-week lifestyle course delivered by distance learning, could promote college students' skills and confidence for lifestyle change, occupational balance, and perceived-health. However, we also observed that the students did not consistently make behavioral changes in different lifestyle topics. Besides, some topics were perceived as more helpful, while others were not. Therefore, this study uses a systematic approach to explore the process of behavioral changes or no-changes, in order to look into the mechanism between the course design and the facilitated behavioral changes. In addition, the effectiveness shown in the pilot studies is expected to be replicated in this study. 2. Research purpose:
- To examine the effectiveness of the lifestyle course for college students, in terms of the skills and confidence for changing lifestyle, occupational balance, perceived health and well-being.
- To explore the mechanisms between the course design and the students' learning.
- Research hypothesis:
Intervention group will demonstrate greater efficacy in skills and confidence for changing lifestyle, occupational balance, perceived health and well-being compared to the control group. 4. Research Design:
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Non Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- Single (Participant)
盲法说明
The intervention providers are not masked.
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •currently enrolled college students
排除标准
- •students who are unable to complete the questionnaires smoothly due to language barriers with Traditional Chinese.
结局指标
主要结局
Stages of Change Ladder
时间窗: Questionnaires will be administered at pre-test, post-test, follow-up test after 2 months, follow-up test after 6 months.
The Stages of Change Ladder is a self-assessment 'readiness for action' scale, developed based on the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change. It assesses the respondent's self-rated readiness to change a specific problem or behavior, with participants choosing which step best represents their current thoughts or behavioral state. A higher score indicates greater readiness. For instance, 0 signifies no intention to change, while 10 indicates active behaviors are being taken.
Healthy Occupation and Lifestyle Competence Scale (HoLCS)
时间窗: Questionnaires will be administered at pre-test, post-test, follow-up test after 2 months, follow-up test after 6 months.
Measures the willingness for a healthy lifestyle (5 items) and the lifestyle adjustment skills (4 items). Using numerical rating scale scoring from 1 to 10, higher scores indicate higher levels of lifestyle competence. HoLCS demonstrated good content validity, good internal consistency, good convergent validity, and good construct validity based on confirmatory factor analysis.
Stages of Change Ladder
时间窗: Questionnaires will be administered at pre-test, post-test, follow-up test after 2 months, follow-up test after 6 months.
The Stages of Change Ladder is a self-assessment 'readiness for action' scale, developed based on the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change. It assesses the respondent's self-rated readiness to change a specific problem or behavior, with participants choosing which step best represents their current thoughts or behavioral state. A higher score indicates greater readiness. For instance, 0 signifies no intention to change, while 10 indicates active behaviors are being taken.
Healthy Occupation and Lifestyle Competence Scale (HoLCS)
时间窗: Questionnaires will be administered at pre-test, post-test, follow-up test after 2 months, follow-up test after 6 months.
Measures the willingness for a healthy lifestyle (5 items) and the lifestyle adjustment skills (4 items). Using numerical rating scale scoring from 1 to 10, higher scores indicate higher levels of lifestyle competence. HoLCS demonstrated good content validity, good internal consistency, good convergent validity, and good construct validity based on confirmatory factor analysis.
次要结局
- Occupational Balance Questionnaire 11-Chinese version (OBQ11_C)(Questionnaires will be administered at pre-test, post-test, follow-up test after 2 months, follow-up test after 6 months.)
- Self-perceived Health Scale(Questionnaires will be administered at pre-test, post-test, follow-up test after 2 months, follow-up test after 6 months.)
- Taiwanese Version of the World Health Organization-Five Well-Being Index (WHO-5-TW)(Questionnaires will be administered at pre-test, post-test, follow-up test after 2 months, follow-up test after 6 months.)
- Occupational Balance Questionnaire 11-Chinese version (OBQ11_C)(Questionnaires will be administered at pre-test, post-test, follow-up test after 2 months, follow-up test after 6 months.)
- Self-perceived Health Scale(Questionnaires will be administered at pre-test, post-test, follow-up test after 2 months, follow-up test after 6 months.)
- Taiwanese Version of the World Health Organization-Five Well-Being Index (WHO-5-TW)(Questionnaires will be administered at pre-test, post-test, follow-up test after 2 months, follow-up test after 6 months.)
研究者
Ling-Hui Chang
Associate Professor
National Cheng Kung University