Effectiveness of Health Literacy Education

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Health Literacy Level
• Interventions: Other: Health Literacy Education

• Registration Number: NCT04868487
• Lead Sponsor: Ayşegül Akca

Brief Summary

To determine the effect of health literacy education given to nursing students. The study was conducted at two university nursing departments in Turkey between December 2018 and March 2019. A total of 206 nursing students, 103 in the intervention and 103 in the control group, were included in the study. Health literacy education, consisting of four sessions, was given to the intervention group.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2018-12-01
• Primary Completion: 2019-03-31
• Study Completion: 2019-05-15
• Study First Submitted: 2021-04-24
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-04-27
• Status Verified: 2021-05
• Study First Posted: 2021-05-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-05-05
• Last Update Posted: 2021-05-06

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 206

Inclusion Criteria

• Inadequate (0-25 points) health literacy level
• Problematic-limited (25-33 points) health literacy level
• Accepting to participate in the research
• Accepting to participate in the research

Exclusion Criteria

• Adequate (33-42 points) health literacy level
• Excellent (42-50 points) health literacy level
• Foreign language students with limited language proficiency
• Visual-hearing disability
• Having a neuropsychiatric disease

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intervention	Health Literacy Education	The intervention group received four weekly training sessions of health literacy education. Each educational session lasted an average of 50 minutes. The students were divided into four groups with an average of 25 students in each group.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Health literacy level (the Turkey's Health Literacy Scale (THLS-32))	three months after the implementation.	The health literacy levels of the students who received and did not receive the intervention were compared. The level of health literacy was evaluated in four categories according to the score obtained: (0-25) points: inadequate health literacy, (\> 25-33) points: problematic - limited health literacy, (\> 33-42) points: adequate health literacy, and (\> 42-50) points: excellent health literacy.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

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