NCT05677854

The Effect of Health Literacy Based Practices

The Effect of Health Literacy Based Motivational Interviewing and Health Education on Nutrition and Physical Activity Behaviors of Adolescents

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 63 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ayşegül Akca · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 14 Years – 15 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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.

Conditions

• Health Literacy Level

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Health literacy based motivaonal interview	Motivational interviewing technique was used based on health literacy.
OTHER	Health literacy based health education	Health education based on health literacy was used.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-12-15
• Primary completion: 2023-07-15
• Completion: 2023-09-26
• First posted: 2023-01-10
• Last updated: 2024-07-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)