Effectiveness of educational intervention on knowledge, belief and self-efficacy regarding osteoporosis among the female academic staff in Universiti Putra Malaysia

• Register: ANZCTR
• Last refreshed on: 13 January 2020
• Main ID: ACTRN12616001699459
• Date of registration: 09/12/2016
• Prospective Registration: Yes
• Primary sponsor: Samia Amin
• Public title: Effectiveness of educational intervention on knowledge, belief and self-efficacy regarding osteoporosis among the female academic staff in Universiti Putra Malaysia
• Scientific title: Effectiveness of educational intervention on knowledge, belief and self-efficacy regarding osteoporosis among the female academic staff in Universiti Putra Malaysia
• Date of first enrolment: 01/01/2017
• Target sample size: 240
• Recruitment status: Not yet recruiting
• URL: https://anzctr.org.au/ACTRN12616001699459.aspx
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Purpose: Educational / counselling / training; Allocation: Randomised controlled trial; Masking: Blinded (masking used);Assignment: Parallel;Type of endpoint: Efficacy;
• Phase: Not Applicable

Countries of recruitment

Malaysia

Contacts

• Name: Dr Samia Amin

• Name: Dr Samia Amin

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: i. Female academic participants are working as a full time staff in UPM.
ii. Female academic participants age in between 25-55 years.
iii. Female academic participants with English language
iv. Female academic participants will give written consent.
v. Female academic participants will not going for leave in coming three months.
vi. Female academic participants are using smart mobile phone with internet subscription.

Exclusion criteria: i. Female academic participants diagnosed as osteoporosis.
ii. Female academic participants come for short time training
iii. Pregnant Female academic participants
iv. Female academic participants has chronic disease with medication (e.g. Hypertension/Diabetics)
v. Active female academic participant in another study.
vi. Female academic doctor and nurse staff


Age minimum: 25 Years
Age maximum: 55 Years
Gender: Females

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Knowledge, belief and self-efficacy regarding osteoporosis among the female academic staff in Universiti Putra Malaysia;
Knowledge, belief and self-efficacy regarding osteoporosis among the female academic staff in Universiti Putra Malaysia

Musculoskeletal - Osteoporosis

Public Health - Health promotion/education

Intervention(s)

*The study will be conducted among the female staff in Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang. According to university website (www.upm.edu.my; 2015) total female staff is about more than one thousand. Only academic female staff of this university will be included in this study.
* Respondents who meet the inclusion criteria will be taken as respondent by multi stage random sampling.
*There are sixteen different faculties in Universiti Putra Malaysia; eight different faculties will be allocated for each intervention and control group to achieve the sample size.
*Respondents for both intervention and control group will be single blinded to reduce bias. The respondent will not be informed whether they are categorized under intervention or control group. Only the researcher is able to differentiate which groups are under intervention or control group.
* The intervention group will receives information’s about osteoporosis by education material and control group will not receive any information’s related to osteoporosis. After the completion of the trial the control group will receive the educational material through email.
*Researcher herself will distribute the booklet (educational material) which will includes the information on development, risk, consequences and prevention strategies of osteoporosis among the intervention group.
*Educational material (booklet) develop under “Health Belief Model” will be prepared by principal investigator specifically highlight the study objectives by comprehensive literature review from previous studies.
*All participants will answer a set of validated and pretested questionnaire at baseline, immediately and three months after intervention.
*To reduce the noncompliance in the study the researcher will send weekl

Primary Outcome(s)

Osteoporosis belief assessed by questionnaire designed for this study [At baseline, immediately after intervention commencement and at 3 months after intervention commencement ]

Osteoporosis self-efficacy assessed by questionnaire designed for this study[At baseline, immediately after intervention commencement and at 3 months after intervention commencement ]

Osteoporosis knowledge assessed by questionnaire designed for this study [At baseline, immediately after intervention commencement and at 3 months after intervention commencement ]

Secondary Outcome(s)

Proportion of participants with an improve Osteoporosis Self-Efficacy Scale (OSES) [Immediately after intervention commencement and at 3 months after intervention commencement]

Proportion of participants with an improve Osteoporosis Health Belief Scale (OHBS).[Immediately after intervention commencement and at 3 months after intervention commencement]

Proportion of participants with an improve Osteoporosis Knowledge Test (OKT) score[Immediately after intervention commencement and at 3 months after intervention commencement]

Secondary ID(s)

Nil known

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Samia Amin

Secondary Sponsor(s)

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hejar Abdul Rahman

Dr. Emilia Zainal Abidin

Dr. Suriani Ismail

Ethics review

Status: Approved
Approval date:
Contact:

JKEUPM (Ethic Committee For Research Involving Human Subject)