NCT07040371

Health Promotion Behavior Intervention for Elderly Migrants to Improve Health Outcomes

A Health Promotion Behavior Intervention for Elderly Migrants: a Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 61 (actual)
• Sponsor: Huzhou University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study aimed to develop a health promotion behavior intervention for elderly migrants and evaluate its effects, in order to provide insights for enhancing health-promoting behaviors among elderly migrants, improving community-based health management services for this population, and addressing health challenges related to migration in an aging society.

Detailed description

This study employed a randomized controlled trial design, with elderly migrants in Huzhou City as participants, randomly assigned to either an intervention or control group. The control group received routine community care, while the intervention group underwent a 12-week "Health Promotion Behavior Intervention Program for Elderly Migrants" based on the Behaviour Change Wheel (BCW) theory. The intervention targeted motivation, capability, and opportunity through six dimensions, including health habits, social participation, and health responsibility, delivered via group interactions, face-to-face sessions, online resources, and community activities. Standardized scales were used to assess health promotion behaviors, self-perceived aging, family care, and loneliness at baseline, 6 weeks, and post-intervention. Data analysis involved Shapiro-Wilk tests, Mann-Whitney U tests, and Wilcoxon signed-rank tests.

Conditions

• Elderly Migrants
• Health Promotion Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Health Promotion Behavior Intervention Program	The intervention program is structured around a three-step framework: ① building motivation and providing opportunities; ② reinforcing motivation, enhancing capabilities, and providing opportunities; and ③ sustaining motivation, strengthening capabilities, and providing opportunities. The process involves assessing the current state of health-promoting behaviors among elderly migrants, implementing interventions to promote these behaviors, and evaluating the effectiveness of the interventions. The program spans 12 weeks and is carried out by a team of researchers and nursing students. Key intervention components include: ① helping elderly migrants recognize their health issues, analyzing the impact of migration on health-promoting behaviors, and emphasizing the importance of such behaviors through comparisons of negative and positive case studies; ② conducting thematic training on health habits, dietary nutrition, exercise safety, oral hygiene, and other topics through health lectures,
OTHER	receiving routine community care and management only	It primarily included distributing health manuals, conducting regular health education sessions, and performing follow-ups. Researchers and community nurses collected and addressed health-related inquiries raised by the elderly migrants. Additionally, to ensure scientific rigor and equity in the study, compensatory interventions (such as providing equivalent intervention opportunities or distributing relevant intervention materials) were offered to participants based on their actual needs upon completion of the research project.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-10-01
• Primary completion: 2024-11-12
• Completion: 2024-12-24
• First posted: 2025-06-27
• Last updated: 2025-06-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China