NCT06084429

Developing School Health Champions to Increase Health Literacy Both in School Adolescents and Community People Through Providing Health Education by the School Nurses in Bangladesh: Community-based Pre- and Post-experimental Design

Developing School Health Champions to Increase Health Literacy Both in School Adolescents and Community People Through Providing Health Education by the School Nurses in Bangladesh: Community-based Pre- and Post-experimental Design.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 138 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hiroshima University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 11 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Health literacy is a person's decision-making ability to improve their quality of life and prevent diseases by accessing, understanding and applying health information. Health literacy in the adolescent's period can aid them to gain and understand health information which can bring positive health outcomes. The aim of this pilot study is to examine the efficacy of health education and school health activities provided by school nurses on improving health literacy among secondary school adolescents. The study will also examine whether health education by health champions (the adolescents) is effective in improving the health literacy of the community people, and examine whether these interventions develop awareness, improve health knowledge, empower, and change behaviors of secondary school adolescents. This intervention study aims to improve health literacy in the adolescents in Bangladesh and the school-located community. The Begum Ayesha Pilot Girl's High School in Dohar, Dhaka district will be selected as a field. First, we will place school nurses at the school, provide health checkups for both the adolescents (about n=316) and community people (about n=200), and school nurses will provide weekly health education for 3 months to the adolescents. After certifying them as "Health Champions", the health champions visit the community and provide health education activities to the community people. For both participant groups, health literacy will be measured as efficacy checking of this pilot study. Assent and informed consent will be obtained from the participants. Autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, fidelity, veracity, confidentiality, and justice of the participants will be ensured. Also, anonymity will be maintained across all stages of the study.

Conditions

• Health Literacy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	pre and post test (health educational intervention)	The health education will be provided the following sessions. Introduction to Global and Bangladesh Health, Health Information access (Validity), Critical Values (Vital signs, BMI, RBS etc.), Emergency Management (burn, chocking, knife cut, fainting etc.), Food (classification, healthy food, unhealthy, food label, salt intake) (NCDs from unhealthy diet), Smoking and Alcohol (NCD related, substance abuse, secondhand smoking), Physical activity (Benefits, sedentary lifestyle, NCD related), Women's health (menstruation, menstrual cycle, hygiene, STD, contraception), Hygiene (water, food, brushing, bath, toileting, healthy habits), Environmental Sanitation and Communicable disease (clean, effects on health), and Women's health and societal contribution

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-02-24
• Primary completion: 2025-08-30
• Completion: 2025-08-30
• First posted: 2023-10-16
• Last updated: 2026-02-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Bangladesh