Digital Health Literacy Intervention for Disadvantaged Women During Corona

NCT04603092 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: FormanChristianC
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 1,010
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The aim is to deliver a digital health literacy intervention to disadvantaged women to improve their health behaviors with regard to (i) hygiene and sanitation, and (ii) coronavirus awareness and prevention in four provinces of Pakistan through women community health workers.

Conditions

Health Literacy

Keywords

digital health literacy; community healthcare workers; coronavirus; primary healthcare; maternal and child health

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Changes in health directed behavior

  A total of 135 questions will be used, with five domains being covered through the following surveys: (i) Health Education Impact Questionnaire, (ii) Survey on Hygiene Knowledge, Attitude and Practice, (iii) Homecare of Covid Survey, (iv) Survey for mobile u-Health program by Ahn, Bae, and Kim and (v) Women's Health Care Experiences Survey. It is a five-point Likert-type scale (strongly agree - agree - neutral - disagree - strongly disagree). The highest value of the scale is 6 and the lowest value is 1; with 6 points showing strong agreement with the item statement (E.g. Q80. We are cleaning the eating, drinking, and cooking utensil with dish detergent after every use).

  3 months

Study Arms (2)

Disadvantaged women in primary setting receiving digital health literacy intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

The study population will comprise of disadvantaged women dependent on primary healthcare services, who do not have access to digital tools (smartphone, computer, laptop) or Wifi in their home. This group will receive the digital health literacy intervention.

Behavioral: Digital Health Literacy Intervention

Disadvantaged women in primary setting not receiving digital health literacy intervention

NO INTERVENTION

The study population will comprise of disadvantaged women dependent on primary healthcare services, who do not have access to digital tools (smartphone, computer, laptop) or Wifi in their home. This control group will not receive the digital health literacy intervention.

Interventions

Digital Health Literacy Intervention BEHAVIORAL

Willing women participants will be provided equipment with instructions for the intervention, including a smartphone and a 4G Wifi gadget. The health literacy intervention, delivered to the experiment group, will last three months and will include a combination of the following four components: Component 1: Health literacy video tutorial. Component 2: Virtual one-on-one weekly meetings. Component 3: Monthly group virtual meetings and Whatsapp group. Component 4: Provision and guidance of a self-management chart.

Disadvantaged women in primary setting receiving digital health literacy intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 15 Years - 49 Years
• Sex: female
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Disadvantaged women dependent on primary healthcare services
• Women of the reproductive age group, 15 years to 49 years

You may not qualify if:

• Women above 49 years

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Forman Christian College, Pakistan: lead
• doctHERs: collaborator
• Saglik Bilimleri Universitesi: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Forman Christian College University

Lahore, Punjab Province, 54000, Pakistan

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Jafree SR, Bukhari N, Muzamill A, Tasneem F, Fischer F. Digital health literacy intervention to support maternal, child and family health in primary healthcare settings of Pakistan during the age of coronavirus: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open. 2021 Mar 2;11(3):e045163. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045163.

  PMID: 33653760 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Coronavirus Infections

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Coronaviridae Infections; Nidovirales Infections; RNA Virus Infections; Virus Diseases; Infections

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Masking Details: No masking
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology

Model Details: The control and experiment group will both be provided a hard-copy of a health literacy booklet and electronically administered the: (a) base-line survey, and (b) the pre-test survey and the post-test survey. The experiment group will receive a digital health literacy intervention in two target areas: (i) hygiene and sanitation, and (ii) coronavirus awareness and prevention.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: October 19, 2020
• First Posted: October 26, 2020
• Study Start: March 1, 2021
• Primary Completion: August 1, 2021
• Study Completion: August 1, 2021
• Last Updated: May 11, 2022

Record last verified: 2022-05

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share
• Shared Documents: STUDY PROTOCOL, SAP, ICF
• Time Frame: 6 months

Locations

PA (1)