Heart-health Promotion

University of Baghdad144 enrolled

Overview

The researchers intend to use the Expanded Health Belief Model in enhancing heart-health preventive behaviors among high school female students

The study intervention will be derived from the Expanded Health Belief Model which includes adhering to healthy diet, encouraging healthy weight, nutrition, and physical activity stress management, and smoking cessation and smoking avoidance.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

144

Conditions

Heart Diseases

Interventions

Expanded Health Belief Model-Based InterventionBEHAVIORAL

A healthy Diet Healthy Weight Physical Activity Stress Management Smoking Cessation and Avoidance

Eligibility

Sex: FEMALEMin age: 15 YearsMax age: 20 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * High school female students who do not experience any psychiatric-mental disorder Exclusion Criteria: * High school female students who experience any psychiatric-mental disorder

Locations (1)

University of Baghdad

Baghdad, Iraq

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Behavioral Intention Scale for Adherence to Heart-Health Preventive Behaviors

Enhancing Heart-Health Preventive Behaviors

Time frame: 6 months

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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