The Effectiveness of a Tailored Nutritional Education Program on Profound Hearing Impairment Adults

NCT ID: NCT06530979

Last Updated: 2024-07-31

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

61 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2023-06-01

Study Completion Date

2025-03-02

Brief Summary

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Literature suggests that profound hearing-impaired people have poor access to health care directly related to communication difficulties. A lack of knowledge regarding health and healthy dietary patterns has been documented. Several associations between chronic diseases such as obesity, CVD, hyperlipidemia etc., and hearing impairments have been established. There is a gap in the literature for studies that use Saudi-sign language-tailored programs in patient health and nutrition education.

This project aims to create a Saudi-sign language general nutritional education program and then test its effectiveness in enhancing the nutritional status and knowledge of Saudis with profound hearing impairments.

Detailed Description

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Literature suggests that profound hearing-impaired people have poor access to health care directly related to communication difficulties. A lack of knowledge regarding health and healthy dietary patterns has been documented. Several associations between chronic diseases such as obesity, CVD, hyperlipidemia etc., and hearing impairments have been established. There is a gap in the literature for studies that use Saudi-sign language-tailored programs in patient health and nutrition education.

This project aims to create a Saudi-sign language general nutritional education program and then test its effectiveness in enhancing the nutritional status and knowledge of Saudis with profound hearing impairments.

Methods: The study will be divided into two phases. The first phase will cultural adaptation and translation of the General Nutrition Knowledge Questionnaire (GNKQ) which will be used in the intervention study. In this phase, the forward-backwards technique will be followed, for internal consistency will be used Cronbach's alpha. A Saudi-sign language general nutritional education program will be created from accredible source for content appropriateness. For the second phase, the interventional study, the participants will be randomly selected and allocated to either the control or the experimental group. The efficacy of the Saudi-sign language general nutrition education program to enhance the knowledge and nutrition health of Saudi adults with profound hearing impairment will be compared to a control group. A small group counselling will be delivered to the experimental group using pictures, animated films, models, and Saudi-sign language translations supplied by a sign language interpreter in the videos and person during sessions. The same video will be used to create PowerPoint with nutritional education information for the control group in Arabic. Anthropometric data, body composition, a 3-day food diary, and the GNKQ will all be gathered at baseline and twelve weeks later.

Conditions

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Profound Hearing Impairment Nutrition, Healthy

Keywords

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Profound hearing impairment Nutrition knowledge Nutrition status Intervention nutrition education

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants

Study Groups

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Nutritional education program intervention

Nutritional education program intervention (NEP group n=30) profound hearing-impaired people who will receive tailored nutritional education program intervention utilizing Saudi-Sign Language supplied by a sign language interpreter in the videos and person during sessions.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Tailored nutritional education program utilizing Saudi-sign language supplied by Saudi-sign language interpreter

Intervention Type DEVICE

The program will be implemented in an experimental group composed of profoundly impaired hearing adults (91 Decibels and above). The experimental group will receive nutrition group counselling via photos, and models, and Saudi-sign language interpreter, including awareness of food groups and their nutrients, choose healthy and balanced items from supermarkets, restaurants or coffee shop menus-traffic lights on nutrition labelling and health problems or diseases related to diet and weight management

Control

Control (C group n=31) Profound hearing-impaired people who will non- receive tailored nutritional education program intervention utilizing Saudi-Sign Language

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Tailored nutritional education program utilizing Saudi-sign language supplied by Saudi-sign language interpreter

The program will be implemented in an experimental group composed of profoundly impaired hearing adults (91 Decibels and above). The experimental group will receive nutrition group counselling via photos, and models, and Saudi-sign language interpreter, including awareness of food groups and their nutrients, choose healthy and balanced items from supermarkets, restaurants or coffee shop menus-traffic lights on nutrition labelling and health problems or diseases related to diet and weight management

Intervention Type DEVICE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

1. Saudi adults
2. Aged between 18-65 years
3. Both males and females
4. Known case of profound hearing impairment /disability
5. knowledgeable in Saudi Sign Language.

Exclusion Criteria

1. Aged \<18 years
2. Not knowing the Saudi Sign Language
3. Other disabilities such as mental or physical disability
4. Have nutritional knowledge such as attended course/s related nutrition or studied in nutrition field
5. Illiterate
6. Pregnant or planning a pregnancy, or on breastfeeding
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

65 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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King Saud University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Jenan Aljubair

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Jenan Aljubair, Ph.D

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

King Saud University

Locations

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College of Applied Medical Sciences

Riyadh, , Saudi Arabia

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Saudi Arabia

Central Contacts

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Jenan Aljubair, Ph.D.

Role: CONTACT

Phone: 0504253871

Email: [email protected]

Dara Aldisi, M.D., Ph.D.

Role: CONTACT

Phone: 0552206637

Email: [email protected]

Facility Contacts

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Jenan Aljubair, Ph.D.

Role: primary

Dara Aldisi, M.D., Ph.D.

Role: backup

Other Identifiers

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kingSaudU1

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id