Clinical trial NCT06022185: E-Health Literacy, Digital Literacy, Healthy Lifestyle and Web Based Education for Young Old Individuals
Official title: The Effect of Web-Based Education Given to Young Elders on E-Health Literacy, Digital Literacy and Healthy Lifestyle Levels
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Healthy Lifestyle
Keywords: Elderly E-Health Digital Literacy Healthy Lifestyle
Lead sponsor: Igdir University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Ataturk University
First posted: 2023-09-01
Enrollment: 80
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 65
Maximum age (years): 74
Standard ages: OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: A total of 70 people, 35 in the experimental group and 35 in the control group, will be included in the study.
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: A healthy lifestyle is defined as knowing and controlling all the behaviors that may affect the health of the individual and regulating his daily activities by choosing the appropriate behaviors for his/her own health status.

While many factors are effective on healthy lifestyle behaviors, health literacy is one of these factors. One of the health literacy measurement tools is e-health literacy.

E-health literacy is "the ability to search for, find, understand, evaluate health information from electronic sources and apply this information to addressing or solving a health problem.

Digital literacy is the ability of an individual to access, select, use, criticize and evaluate information in new and developing digital technologies. In this respect, the importance of digital literacy is an undeniable fact in the health sector and is thought to be related to e-health literacy.

In this direction, this research was planned to evaluate the effect of web-based education to be given to young and old individuals on e-health literacy, digital literacy and healthy lifestyle behaviors.

Detailed description: A healthy lifestyle is defined as knowing and controlling all the behaviors that may affect the health of the individual and regulating his daily activities by choosing the appropriate behaviors for his/her own health status.

While many factors are effective on healthy lifestyle behaviors, health literacy is one of these factors. One of the health literacy measurement tools is e-health literacy.

E-health literacy is "the ability to search for, find, understand, evaluate health information from electronic sources and apply this information to addressing or solving a health problem.

Digital literacy is the ability of an individual to access, select, use, criticize and evaluate information in new and developing digital technologies. In this respect, the importance of digital literacy is an undeniable fact in the health sector and is thought to be related to e-health literacy.

In this direction, this research was planned to evaluate the effect of web-based education to be given to young and old individuals on e-health literacy, digital literacy and healthy lifestyle behaviors.

Material Method This study is a randomized controlled trial. The research is planned on young and old individuals registered to the family health center (FHC) in Iğdır city center between January 2023 and January 2025. The population of the research will consist of young and old individuals aged 65-74 who are registered in 2 FHCs selected by simple random sampling among 9 FHCs located in the city center of Iğdır. Based on previous similar studies to determine the sample size, it was calculated that there should be at least 31 individuals in each group as a result of the power analysis performed by taking the effect power =0.85, Alpha(α) =0.05, power 1- β (beta) =0.90. . However, considering the sample losses that may arise during the study, the number of samples was increased by 10% and a total of 70 people were planned, each group consisting of 35 people, by randomization.

Personal information form created by the researchers, "E-Health Literacy Scale", "Acquiring Health Information in Digital Environment and Confirmation Scale", "Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors Scale-II" will be used in the collection of research data.

Data Collection: The data will be encountered face-to-face by the researcher. Evaluation of Data: Data will be analyzed with SPSS for Windows 23 package program. In the analysis of the data, it is planned to use numbers, percentages, minimum and maximum values, mean and standard deviations, as well as the appropriate analysis techniques in the table below.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Volunteering to Participate in Research
* Being between the ages of 65-74
* Being literate in Turkish
* Having a computer or mobile phone and internet connection at home
* Being able to use Whatsapp
* Not having a visual or auditory health problem that would prevent participation in the study.
* No communication barrier

Exclusion Criteria:

* Having a visual and auditory health problem that will prevent participation in the study.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Pre-Test Data Collection
timeFrame: Time frame: One or two months
measure: Collection of Post-Test Data
timeFrame: Time frame: one or two months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Iğdır
country: Turkey
facility: Igdir University
Study officials:
affiliation: Igdir University
name: Zeynep YILDIRIM, Doctorate
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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