School-based e-Health Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) Prevention Program

Summary

The goal of this sequential mixed method study is to assess the feasibility and effectiveness of a school-based eHealth-NCD prevention program intervention to improve adolescents' knowledge, attitude, and practices regarding NCDs and associated risk factors. It aims :

1. To identify barriers and facilitators associated with implementing a school-based eHealth intervention to improve the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of secondary and higher secondary school students in Pakistan regarding NCDs and their associated risk factors.
2. To explore the stakeholders' perceptions regarding the design and content of the School based eHealth NCD prevention Program to improve the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of secondary and higher secondary school students in Pakistan regarding NCDs and their associated risk factors.
3. To assess the feasibility and effectiveness of the School-based eHealth NCD prevention program in secondary and higher secondary school in Karachi.
4. To evaluate the effectiveness of the school-based eHealth NCD prevention program in significantly improving the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of secondary and higher secondary school students in Karachi, Pakistan, regarding NCDs and their associated risk factors, as compared to a control group not receiving the intervention.
5. To explore the perceptions of students regarding the usefulness acceptability and task technology fit of the School-based eHealth NCD prevention Program in improving the knowledge, attitude, and practices of Pakistani Higher Secondary School students regarding NCDs and their associated risk factors.

Researcher aim to evaluate the effectiveness of the school-based eHealth NCD prevention program in significantly improving the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of secondary and higher secondary school students in Karachi, Pakistan, regarding NCDs and their associated risk factors, as compared to a control group not receiving the intervention.

Participants of intervention group will attend health-promoting sessions delivered by trained facilitators, with each session lasting 30 to 40 minutes. There will be a total of six health-promoting sessions be focused on the leading risk factors associated with NCDs as reported by different studies such as physical inactivity, unhealthy diet and overweight, obesity, harmful alcohol consumption and tobacco use will be conducted in the classroom for the intervention group.

Conditions

• Noncommunicable Diseases
• Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
• Non-communicable Disease Risk Factors

Interventions

OTHER

School-based eHealth NCD Prevention Program

Students will participate in health-promoting sessions delivered by trained facilitators, with each session lasting 30 to 40 minutes. There will be a total of six health-promoting sessions conducted in the classroom for the intervention group, spanning two months with three sessions per month. The health-promoting videos from the school-based eHealth NCD prevention program will be shown in the classroom using multimedia. The drama-based videos will be developed in Urdu Language with English subtitles and will be based on based on contextually relevant content for the Pakistani secondary and higher secondary school students of age 13 to 18 years old. The content of these six sessions will be focused on the leading risk factors associated with NCDs as reported by different studies such as physical inactivity, unhealthy diet and overweight, obesity, harmful alcohol consumption and tobacco use.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Aga Khan University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Dr. Tazeen Saeed Ali, Ph.D · Aga Khan University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

SINGLE

Model

SEQUENTIAL

Eligibility

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2024-03-01

Primary Completion

2024-12-31

Completion

2025-03-31

Countries

• Pakistan

Study Locations