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A Caregiver-mediated Health Educational Intervention to Improve Constipation Status of Primary School Children

NCT04590846 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 173

Last updated 2022-08-01

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Summary

The research adopts caregiver-mediated health educational intervention to Improve constipation status of primary school children. It is a quasi-experimental design study, which will enroll students in the 3rd to 6th grades of two primary schools and their parents in Yunlin County. There will be 200 children in the experimental group and 200 in the control group. Parents in the experimental group will receive health educational leaflets every week and no intervention will be given to the control group. Both the experimental and control groups students will be asked to fill up a questionnaire at the before and after the intervention with a total of 8 weeks. The study can provide the understanding of the current status of constipation in primary school children, parents' awareness and attitudes on constipation-related issues.

Conditions

  • Constipation

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Constipation Health Education Intervention Course

The 4-weeks health education includes three dimensions. The first is "Causes and Hazards of Constipation". The second is "Constipation Symptoms and Criteria". The third is "Constipation Treatment Strategies and Prevention". Health education leaflets with 3 to 5 test questions in the weekly are distributed once a week, students will bring them back to parents, and parents need to complete the answers and sign after reading them.

BEHAVIORAL

General Health Course

General courses about health issues according to the curriculum of each primary school.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Asia University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jia-Zhen Li, MS · Asia University

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
10 Years
Max Age
13 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-10-07
Primary Completion
2020-12-31
Completion
2020-12-31

Countries

  • Taiwan

Study Locations

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