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A school-based health culture programme for teenagers in medical track education: a Russian study

Building health culture among adolescents in pre-medical education: a multicentre implementation study in Russia

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Observational
Source
ISRCTN
Registry ID
ISRCTN10165096
Enrollment
1600
Registered
2026-04-08
Start date
2021-09-01
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2026-06-29

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Conditions

Adolescent health behavior Other

Interventions

Prospective single-arm cohort study with a pre-post design. Participants were adolescents aged 15–18 years enrolled in pre-professional medical education at six institutions affiliated with Sechenov U

Sponsors

I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University)
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All
Age
15 Years to 18 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. Age 15–18 years at baseline (2021) 2. Enrolled in a pre-professional medical education programme at one of the six participating institutions (Moscow, Bryansk, Magadan, Kaluga, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Syktyvkar) 3. Provision of written informed consent by both the adolescent participant and a parent or legal guardian

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Age 18 years 2. Not enrolled in a pre-professional medical education programme at participating institutions 3. Declined to provide written informed consent (adolescent or parent/legal guardian) 4. Inability to complete baseline or follow-up assessments due to relocation or withdrawal from the educational programme

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Health culture level measured using integrative health culture questionnaire at baseline assessment: 2021 and follow-up assessment: 2024 (post-intervention)

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
1. Morbidity: overall and disease-specific rates per 1000, derived from preventive examinations and medical records 2. Quality of life measured using standardised questionnaire score 3. Academic performance measured using educational records (average grade) 4. Parental health culture measured using parallel parental questionnaire 5. Health culture competence: proportion of adolescents rated as having high competence based on the relevant domain of the health culture questionnaire 6. Health motivation: proportion of adolescents with high motivation and readiness to form and enact health culture 7. Realised health culture potential: percentage change in potential realisation assessed using a matrix-based tool (informational, behavioural, and relationship-based components) All key secondary outcomes assessed at baseline (2021) and at follow-up (2024) after completion of the multicomponent programme

Countries

Russian Federation

Contacts

Public ContactNatalya Biryukova
biryukova_n_v@staff.sechenov.ru+7 (0)4956370238

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Jul 3, 2026