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Evaluation of Health Education Theater

Not Applicable
Active, not recruiting
Conditions
Community Health Education
Interventions
Behavioral: Health education
Registration Number
NCT03759015
Lead Sponsor
University of California, Davis
Brief Summary

This study evaluates the feasibility and the potential positive health impacts of a novel "health education theater," which will task participants of a health education program to create an original 10-minute theater that is required to use the health guidelines about physical activity and diet/nutrition. The outcomes include the changes in (a) knowledge about these guidelines, (b) compliance to these guidelines, (c) health related quality of life, and (d) self-perception well-being measures such as self-esteem and self-efficacy.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
10
Inclusion Criteria
  • University of California (UC) Davis students who register for the course entitled " Health Education Theater," to be held during the 2019 Spring Quarter, i.e., from April 2019 to June 2019.
Exclusion Criteria
  • Adults unable to consent
  • Individuals who are not yet adults (infants, children, teenagers)
  • Prisoners
  • Individuals who are not compliant to this project's guideline of health limitations. Under this project guideline, absences due to health limitations are not expected to exceed 3 days maximum in addition to standard class policy during the quarter. As long as a subject is compliant to this project guideline and the additional accommodations authorized by the UC Davis Student Disability Center (SDC), any student (including a pregnant woman student and a student with a disability) can participate in this study.

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
SINGLE_GROUP
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Health educationHealth educationThis arm's subjects are tasked to create an original 10-minute theater that is required to use the guidelines about physical activity and diet/nutrition.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Change in knowledge about the health guidelines regarding physical activitybaseline, immediately post-intervention, 6 months post-intervention, 12-months post-intervention

Knowledge about the guidelines regarding physical activity assessed via survey questionnaire. This outcome is dichotomous, either 0 or 1, representing a survey respondent's knowledge about the guideline is incorrect or correct, respectively. This guideline is set by the UC Davis Health Education and Promotion (HEP) (https://shcs.ucdavis.edu/wellness/physical-activity).

Change in health related quality of lifebaseline, immediately post-intervention, 6 months postintervention, 12-months post-intervention

Health related quality of life will be measured with the unit of utility (ranging from 0 to 100), which will be derived with the established method of visual analogue scale following EuroQol Group (Health Policy. 1990;16(3):199-208).

Change in knowledge about the health guidelines regarding diet/nutritionbaseline, immediately post-intervention, 6 months post-intervention, 12-months post-intervention

Knowledge about the guidelines regarding diet/nutrition assessed via survey questionnaire. This outcome is dichotomous, either 0 or 1, representing a survey respondent's knowledge about the guideline is incorrect or correct, respectively. This guideline is set by the UC Davis Health Education and Promotion (HEP) (https://shcs.ucdavis.edu/fruits-andveggies).

Change in compliance about the health guidelines regarding diet/nutritionbaseline, immediately post-intervention, 6 months post-intervention, 12-months post-intervention

Compliance about the guidelines regarding diet/nutrition assessed via survey questionnaire. This outcome is dichotomous, either 0 or 1, representing a survey respondent is non-compliant or compliant to the guideline, respectively. This guideline is set by the UC Davis Health Education and Promotion (HEP) (https://shcs.ucdavis.edu/fruits-andveggies).

Change in self-efficacybaseline, immediately post-intervention, 6 months postintervention, 12-months post-intervention

Self-efficacy will be measured by the established method of "the Generalized self-efficacy scale," ranging from 10 to 40 (Schwarzer, R., \& Jerusalem, M. (1995). Generalized Self-Efficacy scale. In J. Weinman, S. Wright, \&M. Johnston, Measures in health psychology: A user's portfolio. Causal and control beliefs (pp. 35-37). Windsor, England: NFER-NELSON.).

Change in compliance about the health guidelines regarding physical activitybaseline, immediately post-intervention, 6 months post-intervention, 12-months post-intervention

Compliance about the guidelines regarding physical activity assessed via survey questionnaire. This outcome is dichotomous, either 0 or 1, representing a survey respondent is non-compliant or compliant to the guideline, respectively. This guideline is set by the UC Davis Health Education and Promotion (HEP) (https://shcs.ucdavis.edu/wellness/physical-activity).

Change in self-esteembaseline, immediately post-intervention, 6 months postintervention, 12-months post-intervention

Self-esteem will be measured by the established method of "the Rosenberg's self-esteem scale," ranging from 10 to 40 (Rosenberg M. Society and the Adolescent Self-Image. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1965).

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Economic efficiency of the intervention60 years after the end of the intervention based on a simulation analysis

Return on investment (ROI) of the intervention based on a simulation analysis

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of California Davis

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Davis, California, United States

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