Clinical trial NCT03975335: Reducing Behavioral Risk Factors of NCDs: Protocol for a School-based Health Education Program in Bangladesh
Official title: An Intervention Program to Reduce NCD Related Behavioral Risk Factor Among Adolescents in Institutional Settings of Bangladesh
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Non-communicable Disease Risk Factors
Keywords: NCDs
Risk behaviors
Adolescents
Health education intervention
Lead sponsor: Chi Research & Infotec Ltd.
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Directorate General of Health Services
First posted: 2019-06-05
Enrollment: 823
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 14
Maximum age (years): 18
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: This is a before-after designed intervention study conducted in two randomly selected secondary schools- one was selected randomly as intervention school and the another as control school. A baseline survey was conducted among the students of both schools by a pre-tested questionnaire to attain their current status of knowledge, attitude and practices related to NCDs. Afterward, students were enrolled in the intervention group who met the eligibility criteria from the intervention school. The intervention was given through a health promotion session to a group of students, not more than 25 at a time, by trained facilitators. A post-intervention end line survey was conducted among all the participants from both schools using the same questionnaire three months after the baseline survey. An intervention has been developed based on some principals of two psychosocial theory- Motivational Interview and Social Cognitive Theory. Emphasis was given on motivating the adolescents towards a healthy lifestyle, supporting self-efficacy to be changed, guiding self-regulatory ways along with facilitating desired changing process by empowering them with choices about the preventive measures of NCDs. This intervention is expected to increase awareness by equipping the adolescents with specific knowledge and skills and thus, facilitate an eventual change in their practiced risk behaviors.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

• Practicing at least two risk behaviors from three- unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and smoking

Exclusion Criteria:

• Physically disabled or having limited movement

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in knowledge
timeFrame: Three months
measure: Change in attitude
timeFrame: Three months
measure: Change in practice
timeFrame: Three months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Body Mass Index (BMI)
timeFrame: Three months
measure: Blood Pressure
timeFrame: Three months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Dhaka
country: Bangladesh
facility: Chi Research & Infotec Ltd.
Study officials:
affiliation: Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
name: Md Khalequzzaman, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: National Heart Foundation Hospital and Research Institute
name: Sohel Reza Choudhury, DrPH
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
References:
citation: Salwa M, Subaita F, Choudhury SR, Khalequzzaman M, Al Mamun MA, Bhuiyan MR, Haque MA. Fruit and vegetables consumption among school-going adolescents: Findings from the baseline survey of an intervention program in a semi-urban area of Dhaka, Bangladesh. PLoS One. 2021 Jun 8;16(6):e0252297. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0252297. eCollection 2021.
citation: Salwa M, Atiqul Haque M, Khalequzzaman M, Al Mamun MA, Bhuiyan MR, Choudhury SR. Towards reducing behavioral risk factors of non-communicable diseases among adolescents: protocol for a school-based health education program in Bangladesh. BMC Public Health. 2019 Jul 25;19(1):1002. doi: 10.1186/s12889-019-7229-8.