Health Literacy
Conditions
Interventions
Will participate in this study 200 adolescents, both in the intervention and in the control group. Six short-term educational videos (one video per week for six weeks) will be sent to the intervention
Sponsors
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Eligibility
Age
13 Years to 18 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Adolescents between 13 and 18 years old with low levels of digital health literacy obtained by the Brazilian version of the eHeals questionnaire (Maschio, da Silva, 2019)
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Adolescents who have any type of cognitive impairment; Adolescents who are not literate; Adolescents who do not have WhatsApp
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Evaluate the effectiveness of educational videos to enable adolescents with a low level of digital health literacy to identify fake news. The level of digital health literacy will be assessed using the instrument validated and cross-culturally adapted to Brazilian Portuguese, eHeals. The ability of adolescents to identify fake news will be assessed through an assessment activity developed by the authors. It is expected that adolescents participating in the intervention group will perform better in the assessment activity.;Evaluate the effectiveness of educational videos to enable adolescents with a low level of digital health literacy to search for reliable health information on the internet. The level of digital health literacy will be assessed using the instrument validated and cross-culturally adapted to Brazilian Portuguese, eHeals. The ability of adolescents to identify fake news will be assessed through an assessment activity developed by the authors. It is expected that adolescents participating in the intervention group will perform better in the assessment activity. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Determine whether socioeconomic and demographic variables such as age, gender, parental education level, and family income are related to the ability to identify fake news.;Determine whether socioeconomic and demographic variables such as age, gender, parental education level, and family income are related to the ability to search reliably for health information on the internet.;Determine whether characteristics of access to information technologies are related to the ability to identify fake news.;Determine whether characteristics of access to information technologies are related to the ability to perform reliable searches for health information on the internet. | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Public ContactFernanda Ferreira
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Outcome results
None listed