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Filter by:Randomized controlled trial by conglomerates whose objective is to evaluate the effectiveness of an educational nutritional intervention, based on the Social Cognitive Theory, for the increase in the consumption of vegetables and fruits and the decrease in the consumption of ultra-processed foods in adolescent high school students, in the University of Guadalajara, in Guadalajara, Jalisco.
The study was designed as a randomized controlled experimental study in a pretest-posttest design to determine the effect of training provided according to the health promotion model concerning the factors which affect healthy lifestyle in adolescents, on health promotion behavior. It is aimed for adolescents to take health responsibility by increasing their self-efficacy levels and make it a part of their lives. The sample will consist of 72 adolescents (36 in intervention group, 36 in control group) at significance level of 5%, power of 80% and effect size of 0.5-0.75 in a population including 45.737 adolescents aged 14 to 17 years in schools affiliated with Kahramanmaraş Provincial Directorate for National Education. In the first stage of determining the sample, two schools will be determined by drawing lots among the schools affiliated to the Provincial Directorate of National Education and the researcher will assign adolescents, who meet the inclusion criteria, to intervention (n=36) and control (n=36) groups from the first and second schools, respectively using the stratified sampling method and the random numbers table. The inclusion criteria will be being aged 14 to 17 years, speaking Turkish, having parental permission, having no mental or neurological disability and having no chronic illness. In the study, the randomization will be conducted according to age, gender, body mass index, department, and family type. The Adolescent and Parent Information Form (Socio-demographic Characteristics), the Adolescent Lifestyle Profile (ALP) and the Self-efficacy Scale (SES) will be used to gather the data. The data will be collected online from 72 adolescents receiving education in the two high schools affiliated with the Provincial Directorate for National Education between 14 February 2022 and 15 May 2022. The first measurements and trainings will be conducted online. In the first measurement, there will primarily be a meeting activity and then the data collection forms (Socio-demographic Characteristics, the ALS, the SES) will be collected online from the intervention and the control group via e-mail or social media applications. Following the first measurement, the first session will be conducted in the intervention group. As of the first session, a total of six sessions, one in every week will be conducted. In the final session where the applications finish, the posttest-1 including the data collection forms (Socio-demographic Characteristics, the ALS, the SES) will be used in the intervention and control groups. The posttest-2 including the same forms will be applied to the groups one month later. A preliminary application will be performed online in 10 adolescents who remain outside the sample and meet the inclusion criteria. According to the results obtained from the preliminary application, necessary arrangements will be made on the forms and the session and the application will be finalized. A total of 6 sessions on physical activity, nutrition, substance abuse, sexual life, check-up, accidents and injuries will be organized for the adolescents in the intervention group. The sessions will be organized every other week. Each session will be conducted in three stages. First Stage: The researcher will provide training on the subject of the session for nearly 15 minutes. Second Stage: The researcher will show animation film (nearly 3 to 5 minutes) developed by him/her related to the session. Third Stage: Groups of six will be created for the Philips 66 technique application and a spokesman will be chosen. Each group will have an online meeting and discuss the session subject in six minutes under the administration of the researcher. The spokesman of each group will present the discussion outcome in the big group meeting at the end of the discussion. The researcher will summarize the subject after the presentation of each spokesman and terminate the session. The nursing intervention according to the SGM will not be performed in the control groups. However, the adolescents will continue their routine training.
This protocol describes an evaluation of the CyberRwanda program, a digital health tool designed with and for adolescents in Rwanda, with a focus on successful futures, broadly, and family planning and reproductive health, more specifically. CyberRwanda is a tablet-based system that provides information on family planning and reproductive health through a set of vignettes. The program also allows users to order and purchase contraceptives, with pick up at nearby participating pharmacies. The program will be implemented in schools in eight districts in Rwanda. The investigators will conduct a 3-arm, cluster, randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of CyberRwanda on three primary outcomes: uptake of a contraceptive method, initiation of childbearing, and HIV testing. The investigators will compare two implementation models (facilitated and self-service) to a control arm at the school (cluster) level. The study will enroll 60 schools (20 per arm) and 100 students per school, and follow students for 24 months.
The Seattle Social Development Project (SSDP) included a three-part intervention for teachers, parents, and students in grades 1 to 6. It was a universal prevention program that was tested in elementary schools serving children from high crime urban areas. The intervention trained teachers in proactive classroom management, interactive teaching, and cooperative learning. SSDP also offered training to parents in child behavior management, academic support, and skills to reduce risks for drug use. It provided training to children designed to affect interpersonal problem solving and refusal skills. These interventions were designed to reduce risks and increase protection at the individual, peer, family and school levels. The package of interventions was guided theoretically by the social development model. We hypothesized that training teachers to teach and manage their classrooms in ways that promote bonding to school, training parents to manage their families in ways that promote bonding to family and to school, and providing children with training in skills for social interaction would positively affect children's attitudes toward school, behavior at school, and academic achievement. These methods further sought to reduce children's opportunities and rewards for antisocial involvement. We thought that these changes would, in turn, set children on a different developmental trajectory observable in higher school achievement and fewer health-risk behaviors later in adolescence.
Through the training and consultation program conducted via the web for "health promotion," which is an important part of a school's healthcare, interactive communication methods between school nurses and students were provided. The results of the study showed that web-based education and counseling positively influenced health promotion behaviors of the students, and e-health literacy and their knowledge was increased.
The overarching goal of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and sustainability of utilizing statewide Immunization Information Systems (IIS) to conduct centralized reminder/recall (R/R) to improve Human Papiloma Virus (HPV) vaccination rates among adolescents ages 11-17 (with a more focused look at the new two dose series for 11-14 year olds).
Assess the effects of a school-based multi-component intervention on school connectedness, school engagement, and developmental assets through a group randomized, participatory trial.
NEXT is a seven-year longitudinal assessment of a representative sample of U.S. adolescent and young adults starting at grade 10. The goals of the NEXT longitudinal study include: to identify the trajectory of adolescent health status and health behaviors from mid-adolescence through the post high school years; to examine individual predictors of the onset of key adolescent risk behaviors and risk indicators during this period; to identify genetic, personal, family, school, and social/environmental factors that promote or sustain positive health behaviors; to identify transition points in health risk and risk behaviors and changes in family, school, and social/environmental precursors to these transitions, and to examine the role of potential gene-environment interactions in the development of health status and health behaviors. . This study collects reliable and valid data on health behaviors and health indicators and their social, environmental, and biological contexts beginning with a nationally representative probability cohort of 10th-grade children in the U.S in 2009 and following them through 2016. Measures are collected annually for seven years beginning in the 2009-2010 school year and ending in the 2016-2017 school year. African-American youth are oversampled to provide better population estimates of this group and to provide an adequate sample to examine racial/ethnic differences in longitudinal predictors of health, health behaviors, and health behavior change. Hispanic youth do not require oversampling because they currently represent a sufficient proportion of the population of adolescents to provide an adequate sample to examine racial/ethnic differences. Self-reports of health status, health behaviors, and health attitudes are collected by in-school and online surveys. Anthropometric data, genetic information, and neighborhood characteristics are gathered on all participants as well. The study also incorporates an Administrator Survey and other data sources to obtain related information on school-level health programs and community-level contextual data. The NEXT Generation Health Study data support NICHD, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and the Maternal and Child Health Branch of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA/MCHB) in fulfillment of program requirements that address supportive health environments for adolescents and young adults. In addition, a representative subsample of overweight and normal weight adolescents has been identified: additional data on behavioral risk factors and biological markers and risk factors are gathered on these adolescents. Driving performance will also be evaluated in 150 young adults.
This study will determine the effectiveness of a health education intervention in reducing health risk behavior and improving health in adolescents with depression.