Health Literacy and Overweight in Adolescents

Overweight and Obesity Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Association of Adolescents' Interactive and Critical Health Literacy With Their Overweight: a Study in a Medium Urban City in Belgium

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03482193
• Other study ID #: HL-ado-obésité
• Status: Completed
• First received: March 20, 2018
• Last updated: March 29, 2018
• Start date: January 2017
• Est. completion date: June 2017

Study information

• Verified date: March 2018
• Source: University Hospital of Liege
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Obesity in children and adolescents has become a major public health problem in recent years. In Belgium, 20% of people aged between 2 and 17 are overweight and 7% suffer from obesity. While studies often associate this overweight with socio-economic level, other factors, such as health literacy (HL), may also play a role. Among adolescents, some studies have shown an association between the level of HL and the Body Mass Index (BMI). Our study aims to investigate the association between HL of adolescents and their BMI.

This is a cross-sectional survey among 9 high schools in a medium city of Belgium, including 254 high school students aged between 12-17 years. Health literacy was assessed by the Health Literacy Measure for Adolescents (HELMA). Student's age, sex, weight, size and parental socio-economic status are gathered in the medical file during the medical examination organized by the schools after obtaining the informed consent of the students and their parents.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 254
• Est. completion date: June 2017
• Est. primary completion date: June 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Studying in one of the participating school

• Being in 2nd or 4th year

• Parental consent to participate

Exclusion Criteria:

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Overweight
• Overweight and Obesity

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Belgium	University of Liège	Liège

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University Hospital of Liege

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Belgium, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Health Literacy	The degree to which individuals can obtain, process and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions. It also includes the cognitive and social skills which determine the motivation and ability of individuals to gain access to, understand and use information in ways which promote and maintain good health. It is measured by the Health Literacy Measure for Adolescents (HELMA) (Ghanbari et al., 2016), which is composed of 44 items. Health literacy was categorized into 4 categories based on the score to the questionnaire: excellent, sufficient, problematic and inadequate.	1 day (At the inclusion in the study)
Primary	Body Mass Index	Calculated with the standard formula (weight/height²) and categorized into 4 categories (underweight, normal, overweight, obesity) according to the PNNS and IOTF-25 and -30 curves.	1 day (At the inclusion in the study)
Primary	Parents' socio-economic status	We collected the profession of the parents' through the adolescent's medical file, and categorized them into 4 categories: worker, employee, independent, unemployed.	1 day (At the inclusion in the study)
Secondary	Language spoken at home	Collected through a socio-demographic questionnaire	1 day (At the inclusion in the study)
Secondary	Education type	General eduction versus other (differentiated, professional, transition, qualification). Collected through a socio-demographic questionnaire	1 day (At the inclusion in the study)