NCT06666361

Middle-aged and Older Adults with Hypertension in Rural Communities

Health Literacy and Health Promotion Behaviors Among Middle-aged and Older Adults with Hypertension in Rural Communities: a Mixed Methods Study

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 160 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Chimei Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 45 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Does the m-Health intervention have a positive effect on the health literacy and health promotion behaviors of the study participants?

Detailed description

This study adopted a mixed methods study, and the first stage was a qualitative research design. The second phase was a quantitative research design aims to evaluate the effectiveness of applying healthy lifestyle intervention on the health literacy and health promotion behaviors among middle-aged and older adults with hypertension in rural communities. Recruitment is planned to be conducted in the cardiology outpatient clinic of a regional teaching hospital in the south. It will be a random assignment, single-blind, experimental research design, using simple random sampling to assign to the experimental group and the control group (experimental group: hypertension health education manual + m-Health; control group: hypertension health education manual), a two- month intervention program was carried out, and the questionnaire survey was conducted three times: once as a pre-test and twice as post-tests (during the 4th week and the 8th week of the intervention). Data analysis was conducted using statistical software (SPSS, version 22.0) for data management and statistical analysis, and analysis was conducted using descriptive statistics, independent sample t-test, chi-square test, and generalized estimating equations (GEE).

Conditions

• Hypertension

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Experimental Group	The experimental group participates in the Mobio Health Multimedia Hypertension Promotion Program, which includes a hypertension education manual and a mobile health (m-health) intervention aimed at enhancing participants' health literacy and promoting healthy behaviors. In the first week, participants receive the health-education manual on-site, with face-to-face explanations and guidance on using mobile resources, such as text messaging, provided by the Sub-Investigator. The mobile health intervention transforms the manual's content into six video units, each covering a specific topic, and these videos are continuously pushed over a two-month period. Distributed through LINE@, the official LINE account of the nursing platform, participants can easily access information via the chat menu at the bottom of the screen. This setup improves accessibility, making it convenient for participants to locate and use essential health information directly from the chat window.
OTHER	control group	The control group received one copy of the same health education manual as the experimental group. The sub-Investigator only explained how to use the manual, and afterwards, no face-to-face teaching or m-Health interventions were conducted. After the experiment concluded, the m-Health program used by the experimental group would be provided to the control group.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-12-07
• Primary completion: 2025-12-31
• Completion: 2025-12-31
• First posted: 2024-10-30
• Last updated: 2025-03-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan