Digital Health Literacy on COVID-19 for All: Co-creation and Evaluation of Interventions for Ethnic Minorities and Chinese People With Chronic Illnesses in Hong Kong

COVID-19 Clinical Trial

Official title:

Digital Health Literacy on COVID-19 for All: Co-creation and Evaluation of Interventions for Ethnic Minorities and Chinese People With Chronic Illnesses in Hong Kong

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06004323
• Other study ID #: HSEARS20210902004
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: September 1, 2023
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2024

Study information

• Verified date: August 2023
• Source: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Contact: Angela Leung, PhD
• Phone: 27665587
• Email: angela.ym.leung[@]polyu.edu.hk
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

During the pandemic, people are anxious for information, and electronic platform serves the purpose of having first-hand health information and spreading it to massive population within a short time. However, the source and credibility of the influx of online information are hard to be verified. Digital health literacy (DHL) is the capacity to access, understand, evaluate, and apply health information from electronic sources, which is an important attribute that everyone should possess. Recent studies from our group in Hong Kong have shown that, during the COVID-19 pandemic, DHL is an issue facing people of all ages, especially ethnic minorities (EMs), people with chronic illnesses (PWCI), and professional and lay caregivers (CGs). Considering that, the present research project aims to co-create DHL interventions with these three groups of people to meet their specific needs in DHL, in addition, to assess the efficacy of the DHL interventions on eHealth literacy, vaccine literacy, and actions taken for COVID-19 prevention. The present research is a 4-year project, involving three phases. Phase 1 involves focus group interviews and cognitive interviews with the three groups of people for developing interventions and evaluating the proposed interventions. Phase 2 involves individual interviews with the three groups of people for testing the feasibility and acceptability of the interventions. Phase 3 involves a 6-month longitudinal quantitative research, testing for the efficacy of the interventions in three dimensions: literacy, attitude, and behavior. Participants from the three groups will be invited to join virtual or face-to-face training, watch short videos on social media, participate in virtual bi-weekly group discussion, and fill in questionnaires for five times during the course of the study. This co-creation of new knowledge by stakeholders and researchers is expected to increase the uptake of the research outcomes and adoption of the DHL interventions.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 528
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2024
• Est. primary completion date: December 31, 2024
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A to 100 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• ethnic minorities (EMs), people with chronic illnesses (PWCI), and caregivers (CGs)

• able to use a computer, smartphone, or laptop to access the Internet at home

Exclusion Criteria:

• diagnosis of an acute psychotic disease or life-limiting condition; having a visual, auditory, or fine motor disorder.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Chronic Disease
• COVID-19

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Digital health literacy intervention
Participants from the intervention group will be invited to join virtual or face-to-face training, watch short videos on social media, participate in virtual bi-weekly group discussion, and fill in questionnaires for five times during the course of the study

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	eHealth Literacy Efficacy	Measured by the eHealth Literacy scale (eHEAL), an 8-item self-reported efficacy scale scored on a 5-point Likert scale	baseline, 8-week post intervention, 4-week post follow-up, 8-week follow up, and 12 week follow up
Secondary	Digital Health Literacy	Measured by Digital Health Literacy Instrument	baseline, 8-week post intervention, 4-week post follow-up, 8-week follow up, and 12 week follow up
Secondary	Vaccine literacy	knowledge about and intention to receive the COVID-19 vaccine	baseline, 8-week post intervention, 4-week post follow-up, 8-week follow up, and 12 week follow up
Secondary	Knowledge, attitudes, and practices towards COVID-19	Assess knowledge, attitudes, and practices towards COVID-19	baseline, 8-week post intervention, 4-week post follow-up, 8-week follow up, and 12 week follow up