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NCT Number: NCT03759015

Evaluation of Health Education Theater

This study evaluates the feasibility and the potential positive health impacts of a novel "health education theater," which will task participants of a health education program to create an original 10-minute theater that is required to use the health guidelines about physical activity and diet/nutrition. The outcomes include the changes in (a) knowledge about these guidelines, (b) compliance to these guidelines, (c) health related quality of life, and (d) self-perception well-being measures such as self-esteem and self-efficacy.

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This study is active but is not currently recruiting participants.

Key information

Conditions

Community Health Education Adherence Interventions Behavior Health Behavior Health Education Medication Adherence Patient Acceptance of Health Care Patient Compliance Treatment Adherence and Compliance

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

University of California Davis

Davis, California, 95616, United States

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • University of California (UC) Davis students who register for the course entitled " Health Education Theater," to be held during the 2019 Spring Quarter, i.e., from April 2019 to June 2019.

Exclusion criteria

  • Adults unable to consent
  • Individuals who are not yet adults (infants, children, teenagers)
  • Prisoners
  • Individuals who are not compliant to this project's guideline of health limitations. Under this project guideline, absences due to health limitations are not expected to exceed 3 days maximum in addition to standard class policy during the quarter. As long as a subject is compliant to this project guideline and the additional accommodations authorized by the UC Davis Student Disability Center (SDC), any student (including a pregnant woman student and a student with a disability) can participate in this study.

Treatment and study plan

Health Education

Behavioral

All subjects are tasked to create an original 10-minute theater about physical activity and diet/nutrition.

Primary outcomes

  1. Change in knowledge about the health guidelines regarding physical activity

    Time frame: baseline, immediately post-intervention, 6 months post-intervention, 12-months post-intervention

    Knowledge about the guidelines regarding physical activity assessed via survey questionnaire. This outcome is dichotomous, either 0 or 1, representing a survey respondent's knowledge about the guideline is incorrect or correct, respectively. This guideline is set by the UC Davis Health Education and Promotion (HEP) (https://shcs.ucdavis.edu/wellness/physical-activity).

  2. Change in knowledge about the health guidelines regarding diet/nutrition

    Time frame: baseline, immediately post-intervention, 6 months post-intervention, 12-months post-intervention

    Knowledge about the guidelines regarding diet/nutrition assessed via survey questionnaire. This outcome is dichotomous, either 0 or 1, representing a survey respondent's knowledge about the guideline is incorrect or correct, respectively. This guideline is set by the UC Davis Health Education and Promotion (HEP) (https://shcs.ucdavis.edu/fruits-andveggies).

  3. Change in compliance about the health guidelines regarding physical activity

    Time frame: baseline, immediately post-intervention, 6 months post-intervention, 12-months post-intervention

    Compliance about the guidelines regarding physical activity assessed via survey questionnaire. This outcome is dichotomous, either 0 or 1, representing a survey respondent is non-compliant or compliant to the guideline, respectively. This guideline is set by the UC Davis Health Education and Promotion (HEP) (https://shcs.ucdavis.edu/wellness/physical-activity).

  4. Change in compliance about the health guidelines regarding diet/nutrition

    Time frame: baseline, immediately post-intervention, 6 months post-intervention, 12-months post-intervention

    Compliance about the guidelines regarding diet/nutrition assessed via survey questionnaire. This outcome is dichotomous, either 0 or 1, representing a survey respondent is non-compliant or compliant to the guideline, respectively. This guideline is set by the UC Davis Health Education and Promotion (HEP) (https://shcs.ucdavis.edu/fruits-andveggies).

  5. Change in health related quality of life

    Time frame: baseline, immediately post-intervention, 6 months postintervention, 12-months post-intervention

    Health related quality of life will be measured with the unit of utility (ranging from 0 to 100), which will be derived with the established method of visual analogue scale following EuroQol Group (Health Policy. 1990;16(3):199-208).

  6. Change in self-esteem

    Time frame: baseline, immediately post-intervention, 6 months postintervention, 12-months post-intervention

    Self-esteem will be measured by the established method of "the Rosenberg's self-esteem scale," ranging from 10 to 40 (Rosenberg M. Society and the Adolescent Self-Image. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1965).

  7. Change in self-efficacy

    Time frame: baseline, immediately post-intervention, 6 months postintervention, 12-months post-intervention

    Self-efficacy will be measured by the established method of "the Generalized self-efficacy scale," ranging from 10 to 40 (Schwarzer, R., & Jerusalem, M. (1995). Generalized Self-Efficacy scale. In J. Weinman, S. Wright, &M. Johnston, Measures in health psychology: A user's portfolio. Causal and control beliefs (pp. 35-37). Windsor, England: NFER-NELSON.).

Secondary outcomes

  1. Economic efficiency of the intervention

    Time frame: 60 years after the end of the intervention based on a simulation analysis

    Return on investment (ROI) of the intervention based on a simulation analysis

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of California, Davis

Other

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2019
Primary completion
2020
Study completion
2026
First posted
Nov 29, 2018
Registry last updated
Dec 5, 2025

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