The Effect of Health Literacy Based Practices

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Health Literacy Level
• Interventions: Other: Health literacy based motivaonal interview; Other: Health literacy based health education

• Registration Number: NCT05677854
• Lead Sponsor: Ayşegül Akca

Brief Summary

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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2022-12-15
• Study First Submitted: 2022-12-29
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-12-29
• Study First Posted: 2023-01-10
• Primary Completion: 2023-07-15
• Study Completion: 2023-09-26
• Status Verified: 2024-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-07-04
• Last Update Posted: 2024-07-08

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 63

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

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Motivational interview	Health literacy based motivaonal interview	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.
Health education	Health literacy based health education	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.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Health literacy level (Health Literacy Scale for School-Age Children)	six months after completion of the intervention	The level of health literacy was evaluated in three categories according to the score obtained: (10-25) points: low health literacy, (26-35) points: moderate health literacy and (36-40) points: high health literacy.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University; 🇹🇷 Ankara, Çubuk/Türkiye, Turkey