Community Health Education
Conditions
Brief summary
This study evaluates the feasibility and the potential positive health impacts of a novel health education theater, which will task participants of a health education program to create an original 10-minute theater that is required to use the health guidelines about physical activity and diet/nutrition. The outcomes include the changes in (a) knowledge about these guidelines, (b) compliance to these guidelines, (c) health related quality of life, and (d) self-perception well-being measures such as self-esteem and self-efficacy.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALHealth education
All subjects are tasked to create an original 10-minute theater about physical activity and diet/nutrition.
Sponsors
University of California, Davis
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* University of California (UC) Davis students who register for the course entitled Health Education Theater, to be held during the 2019 Spring Quarter, i.e., from April 2019 to June 2019.
Exclusion criteria
* Adults unable to consent * Individuals who are not yet adults (infants, children, teenagers) * Prisoners * Individuals who are not compliant to this project's guideline of health limitations. Under this project guideline, absences due to health limitations are not expected to exceed 3 days maximum in addition to standard class policy during the quarter. As long as a subject is compliant to this project guideline and the additional accommodations authorized by the UC Davis Student Disability Center (SDC), any student (including a pregnant woman student and a student with a disability) can participate in this study.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change in self-efficacy | baseline, immediately post-intervention, 6 months postintervention, 12-months post-intervention | Self-efficacy will be measured by the established method of the Generalized self-efficacy scale, ranging from 10 to 40 (Schwarzer, R., & Jerusalem, M. (1995). Generalized Self-Efficacy scale. In J. Weinman, S. Wright, &M. Johnston, Measures in health psychology: A user's portfolio. Causal and control beliefs (pp. 35-37). Windsor, England: NFER-NELSON.). |
| Change in health related quality of life | baseline, immediately post-intervention, 6 months postintervention, 12-months post-intervention | Health related quality of life will be measured with the unit of utility (ranging from 0 to 100), which will be derived with the established method of visual analogue scale following EuroQol Group (Health Policy. 1990;16(3):199-208). |
| Change in knowledge about the health guidelines regarding physical activity | baseline, immediately post-intervention, 6 months post-intervention, 12-months post-intervention | Knowledge about the guidelines regarding physical activity assessed via survey questionnaire. This outcome is dichotomous, either 0 or 1, representing a survey respondent's knowledge about the guideline is incorrect or correct, respectively. This guideline is set by the UC Davis Health Education and Promotion (HEP) (https://shcs.ucdavis.edu/wellness/physical-activity). |
| Change in knowledge about the health guidelines regarding diet/nutrition | baseline, immediately post-intervention, 6 months post-intervention, 12-months post-intervention | Knowledge about the guidelines regarding diet/nutrition assessed via survey questionnaire. This outcome is dichotomous, either 0 or 1, representing a survey respondent's knowledge about the guideline is incorrect or correct, respectively. This guideline is set by the UC Davis Health Education and Promotion (HEP) (https://shcs.ucdavis.edu/fruits-andveggies). |
| Change in compliance about the health guidelines regarding physical activity | baseline, immediately post-intervention, 6 months post-intervention, 12-months post-intervention | Compliance about the guidelines regarding physical activity assessed via survey questionnaire. This outcome is dichotomous, either 0 or 1, representing a survey respondent is non-compliant or compliant to the guideline, respectively. This guideline is set by the UC Davis Health Education and Promotion (HEP) (https://shcs.ucdavis.edu/wellness/physical-activity). |
| Change in compliance about the health guidelines regarding diet/nutrition | baseline, immediately post-intervention, 6 months post-intervention, 12-months post-intervention | Compliance about the guidelines regarding diet/nutrition assessed via survey questionnaire. This outcome is dichotomous, either 0 or 1, representing a survey respondent is non-compliant or compliant to the guideline, respectively. This guideline is set by the UC Davis Health Education and Promotion (HEP) (https://shcs.ucdavis.edu/fruits-andveggies). |
| Change in self-esteem | baseline, immediately post-intervention, 6 months postintervention, 12-months post-intervention | Self-esteem will be measured by the established method of the Rosenberg's self-esteem scale, ranging from 10 to 40 (Rosenberg M. Society and the Adolescent Self-Image. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1965). |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Economic efficiency of the intervention | 60 years after the end of the intervention based on a simulation analysis | Return on investment (ROI) of the intervention based on a simulation analysis |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed