Increase Health Literacy Through Health Education to Improve Menstruation Related Self-care and Work Productivity

Work-Related Condition Clinical Trial

Official title:

Increase Health Literacy Through Health Education Among-women Working in Readymade Garments (RMGs) to Improve Menstruation Related Self-care and Work Productivity"

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05886101
• Other study ID #: Health literacy & productivity
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 1, 2023
• Est. completion date: February 28, 2024

Study information

• Verified date: May 2023
• Source: Hiroshima University
• Contact: ROKEYA AKTER BRISTY
• Phone: +8801947354673
• Email: gccn.bristy1[@]gmail.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The aim of the study is to increase health literacy, especially in menstruation self-care, and empower female RMG workers through health education by an occupational nurse, and as a consequent improve work productivity in RMG factories in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Description:

Background: Health literacy is the degree to which an individual has the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information needed to make appropriate health decisions. Bangladesh is a low-income country with low health literacy levels amongst its citizens. The concept of health literacy and self-care is difficult to understand for many people. This failure to understand the concept of health literacy impacts on both the national health and the economy. Nevertheless, the health status of the garments workers is greatly affected by their working environment. Unfortunately, the factory environment is not healthy enough to protect their health. In most cases they are the main source of income in their family (Mahmud et al., 2018). Although, they are contributing in countries economy, they are suffering from different types of health problems.

Study Objective:

Increase health literacy especially in menstruation self-care and empower female RMG workers through health education by an occupational nurse, and as a consequent improve work productivity in RMG factories in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Hypothesis:

Increased health literacy amongst the women who work in RMG factories will improve the self-care practice, which consequently improves work productivity of the company.

Method: An experimental design will be used to conduct the study in RMG factories in Bangladesh. The intervention period will be for six months. A total of 4 factories are selected, which will be cluster-+randomized into the intervention group and the control group. All of them are situated in the Dhaka district. Two of them are in Mirpur Thana, one is in Ashulia upazilla, and another one is in Valuka upazilla. The intervention group will receive health education, and the control group will only receive the survey. The primary outcome is the improvement of health literacy among women working in RMGs. The secondary outcomes are improved self-care, menstrual hygiene, and empowered work productivity.

Conclusion: All interested parties would be offered the opportunity to review the results of this survey. All participants of the questionnaire would be informed of the outcomes. As the work will be carefully viewed by the student's dissertation supervisor to be of a high standard then publication in a suitable journal would be appropriate

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 400
• Est. completion date: February 28, 2024
• Est. primary completion date: December 30, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 18 Years to 49 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Women

• Age (18-49 years old)

• Who is having menstruation or not

• Who will be willing to participate

• Who will like to be stay in the job for 6 months

• Who will give consent to share information for the study

• Who will willing to take part in the health educatio

Exclusion Criteria:

• Men and self-identified male or female (the third gender)

The reason: we measure menstruation practice

? Who does not belong to the assigned division or move out during the research period

(We use their data until they are present in the study)

• Who will not be willing to participate

• Who is in leave position at the time of survey

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Menstrual Discomfort
• Occupational Problems
• Work-Related Condition

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Health Education
Health education will be provided to the intervention group on health literacy, self care, productivity improvement

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Bangladesh	Rokeya Akter Bristy	Dhaka	Dhamrai

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Hiroshima University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Bangladesh, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Improvement of health literacy measured by European health literacy scale (12-items short version) (Finbraten et al., 2018) among women in Ready Made Garments (RMG) sector in Bangladesh	Assessing the level of health literacy among RMG workers in Bangladesh. European health literacy scale will be used. The reporting will be done using the likert scale on a score of (1-4). Where 1 is counted as no literacy and 4 means higher literacy level. Health literacy of the garments worker will be checked by trained graduate nurses. Health education will be provided by using multimedia and data will be collected at baseline, midline and endline.	6 months
Secondary	Improve reproductive age women specific health literacy by using the Health literacy scale for women of reproductive age, Bangla version (From Japanese to Bangla and standardized in Study	Improvement on reproductive health literacy. Reproductive Women's health literacy scale. Likert scale will be used. score range is (1-4). 1= poor 2=below average, 3= good, 4 =excellent. The validity and reliability will be assessed according to the social context of Bangladesh	6 months