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Young people’s and their parents' perceptions about healthy eating and physical activity of selected schools in Sri Lanka: The influence of digital storytelling
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SLCTR Registration Number
SLCTR/2021/013
Date of Registration
The date of last modification
Oct 11, 2022
Trial Status
Scientific Title of Trial
Young people’s and their parents' perceptions about healthy eating and physical activity of selected schools in Sri Lanka: The influence of digital storytelling
Public Title of Trial
Healthy eating and physical activity knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviours of young people of selected schools in Colombo District, Sri Lanka: the influence of digital storytelling
Disease or Health Condition(s) Studied
Unhealthy eating and physical inactivity
Scientific Acronym
None
Public Acronym
None
Brief title
None
Universal Trial Number
U1111-1266-6763
Any other number(s) assigned to the trial and issuing authority
08/20; ERC FMS, USJ
What is the research question being addressed?
How does digital storytelling influence on knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors related to healthy eating and physical activity of young people of selected schools in Colombo District, Sri Lanka?
Type of study
Interventional
Study design
Allocation
Non-randomized controlled trial
Masking
Single blinded : Participants
Control
Standard therapy/practice
Assignment
Parallel
Purpose
Other
Study Phase
Not Applicable
Intervention(s) planned
Participants will be young people of 14 and 15 years old in selected state schools of Colombo District, Sri Lanka. Two schools will be selected as Intervention Schools while another two schools will be selected as Control Schools. Duration of the intervention will be 5 weeks. The students will be recruited through invitation. If consenting students exceed the required sample size, a simple random selection will be done.
A digital storytelling educational video materiel about healthy eating and physical activity habits will be administered to the participants of the intervention group.
Digital storytelling video material will be consisted of 4 consecutive video clips each 4 to 5 minutes long. Participants of the intervention group will be facilitated to watch four digital storytelling videos online on four days of four consecutive weeks.
Control group will not receive any intervention.
A baseline questionnaire will be administered to both the intervention group and the control group participants online before facilitating the intervention group participants to watch the first video. A post-intervention online questionnaire will be administered to both groups one week after watching the last video by the intervention group participants. Intervention group participants will be facilitated to watch the videos online. Questionnaires will assess about healthy eating and physical activity knowledge, attitudes, believes and behaviours of young people.
Inclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria
Having cognitive impairment, intellectual disability or mental illness.
Primary outcome(s)
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1.Change in mean score of knowledge related to healthy eating (https://doi.org/10.1080/19325037.2011.10599198) and physical activity (using a questionnaire developed in-house). |
[ At two time points. For the intervention group participants: immediately before watching the first video and one week after watching the last (fourth) video. For the control group participants: parallel to the intervention group participants. ] |
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[ At two time points. For the intervention group participants: immediately before watching the first video and one week after watching the last (fourth) video. For the control group participants: parallel to the intervention group participants. ] |
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[ At two time points. For the intervention group participants: immediately before watching the first video and one week after watching the last (fourth) video. For the control group participants: parallel to the intervention group participants. ] |
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[ At two time points. For the intervention group participants: immediately before watching the first video and one week after watching the last (fourth) video. For the control group participants: parallel to the intervention group participants. ] |
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[ At two time points. For the intervention group participants: immediately before watching the first video and one week after watching the last (fourth) video. For the control group participants: parallel to the intervention group participants. ] |
Secondary outcome(s)
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Change in mean score of behavior related to healthy eating and physical activity using “Sri Lanka - Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2016” Questionnaire (https://extranet.who.int/ncdsmicrodata/index.php/catalog/648) |
[ At two time points. For the intervention group participants: immediately before watching the first video and one week after watching the last (fourth) video. For the control group participants: parallel to the intervention group participants. ] |
Target number/sample size
250 (125 in a group)
Countries of recruitment
Sri Lanka
Anticipated start date
2021-06-11
Anticipated end date
2021-12-30
Date of first enrollment
2022-01-13
Date of study completion
Recruitment status
Complete: follow up complete
Funding source
Self-funded and Queens University of Technology student allocation
Regulatory approvals
Not Applicable
Status
Approved
Date of Approval
2021-02-02
Approval number
08/20
Details of Ethics Review Committee
| Name: | Ethics Review Committee of the Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardanepura |
| Institutional Address: | Ethics Review Committee Office, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Gangodawila, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka. |
| Telephone: | +94 11 2758588 |
| Email: | erc.fms.usjp@gmail.com |
Contact person for Scientific Queries/Principal Investigator
G. G. W. Chamali Wijesekara
PhD Researcher/ Lecturer
1. School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology, Victoria Park Road Kelvin Grove QLD 4059 Australia.
2. Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, The Open University of Sri Lanka, Nawala, Nugegoda.
+61 416 076 430
wasanthi.gamage@hdr.qut.edu.au / ggwij@ou.ac.lk
Contact Person for Public Queries
Dr Marguerite (Margo) Sendall
Senior Lecturer / Principal Supervisor
School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology, Victoria Park Road Kelvin Grove QLD 4059 Australia
m.sendall@qut.edu.au
https://staff.qut.edu.au/staff/m.sendall
+ 61 7 3138 3526 (x83526)
m.sendall@qut.edu.au https://staff.qut.edu.au/staff/m.sendall
Primary study sponsor/organization
Queensland University of Technology
GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia
+61 7 3138 2000
askqut@qut.edu.au
Do the investigators plan to share identified individual clinical trial participant-level data (IPD)?
No
IPD sharing plan description
Not Applicable
Study protocol available
No
Protocol version and date
Not Available
Protocol URL
Not Available
Results summary available
No
Date of posting results
Date of study completion
Final sample size
Date of first publication
Link to results
Brief summary of results
