Health literacy following an educational intervention in older Australians

• Register: ANZCTR
• Last refreshed on: 13 January 2020
• Main ID: ACTRN12616000135415
• Date of registration: 05/02/2016
• Prospective Registration: Yes
• Primary sponsor: Western Sydney University
• Public title: Health literacy following an educational intervention in older Australians
• Scientific title: Can an educational intervention improve health literacy and decision making about supporting self-advice and decision making among older Australians: a randomised controlled trial
• Date of first enrolment: 01/08/2016
• Target sample size: 168
• Recruitment status: Completed
• URL: https://anzctr.org.au/ACTRN12616000135415.aspx
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Purpose: Educational / counselling / training; Allocation: Randomised controlled trial; Masking: Open (masking not used);Assignment: Parallel;Type of endpoint: Efficacy;
• Phase: Not Applicable

Countries of recruitment

Australia

Contacts

• Name: Prof Caroline Smith

• Name: Prof Caroline Smith

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: men and women aged greater than 65 years, living in the Greater Western Sydney Region, and the Southern Highlands, New South Wales
Exclusion criteria: unable to communicate in English, living in a long term care facility

Age minimum: 65 Years
Age maximum: No limit
Gender: Both males and females

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Alternative and Complementary Medicine - Other alternative and complementary medicine

healthy volunteers;
healthy volunteers

Intervention(s)

Health education.
Participants will be invited to watch the three module intervention in their home accessing the web link by a password protected code, or CD ROM over three weeks. The hardware required to use the education intervention will be by internet access, or for those using CD ROM a television or DVD player. Users will be able to pace their learning with back, next, end, replay, pause and play buttons. The duration of teaching module will be 30 minutes. Participants are able to access the intervention as often as they wish.
The content of the intervention will comprise of three modules and include materials and resources to inform the consumer about where to identify and obtain reliable information and credible sources of information about complementary medicines (CM), appraisal of health information, ability to find good information, and navigating the CM healthcare system. Information will be presented online using an education delivery package, and a video with a voice over.
Participants will be invited to read the three modules. One module involves interactive completion of questions using a multiple choice format.
Data will be collected from the web based intervention that document the length of time the web resource was used, and the number of times accessed.

Primary Outcome(s)

Complementary medicine decision self-efficacy using the Preparation for Decision Making Scale[3 weeks and 2 months after the intervention starts]

Secondary Outcome(s)

Health seeking behaviour assessed by practical follow up use of the resources presented. This will be assessed by self report from participants in response to questions designed specifically for the study [3 weeks and 2 months after the intervention starts]

health literacy using the Health Literacy Questionnaire[3 weeks and 2 months after the intervention starts]

change in perception of risk measured by two questions examining views on the safety and efficacy designed specifically for the study.[3 weeks and 2 months after the intervention starts]

knowledge assessed by presentation of a vignette to study participants, and their responses assessed by study staff.[3 weeks and 2 months after the intervention starts]

Secondary ID(s)

None

Source(s) of Monetary Support

IRT Foundation

Ethics review

Status: Approved
Approval date:
Contact:

University of Notre Dame

Status: Approved
Approval date:
Contact:

University of Western Sydney