Investigating the effect of an educational intervention based on the Health Belief Model on the nutritional behaviors of the older people with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Determining the effect of the educational intervention based on the health belief model on the nutritional behaviors of the elderly with non-alcoholic fatty liver in Tehran.

A trial with a control group, with parallel groups, randomized, on 156 patients, rand function of Excel software was used to randomize the groups.

After determining the intervention and control groups, the cognitive status questionnaire will be given and if eligible, the main questionnaire will be given. Then, using the compiled educational program, education is provided to the patients. The educational intervention and completing the questionnaire will be done in the mentioned health centers of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran. Finally, the results are analyzed using the software.

Inclusion criteria: No cognitive impairment, No history of regular alcohol consumption, Elderly with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, Minimum education at the sixth elementary level, Elderly covered by designated health centers

The intervention groups receive training in 5 sessions of 40-60 minutes in a period of 2 months once a week in the form of lectures, questions and answers, and pamphlets. Educational content has been collected from authentic books about this disease and related nutrition. During the intervention, the control group will not receive the training and they will only complete the questionnaire 2 times with a gap of one month, and after completing the training in the intervention group, they will receive the same training content in the form of 1-2 sessions for 30-60 minutes.

Mean scores of nutritional behavior, perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived threat, perceived benefits, perceived barriers, self-efficacy, guide to action, awareness.

Random allocation of centers to control and intervention groups is done by generating random numbers in Excel. For example, for 4 centers in the first column of Excel, we write 2 zeros to indicate the two control centers and 2 ones to indicate the two intervention centers. In the next column, we generate random numbers with the rand command and then sort the first column based on the generated random numbers column. The order of two zeros and two ones is arranged randomly, for example, as 0, 1, 1, 0. Then the first center is assigned to group 0, the second is intervention center, the third is intervention center and the fourth is control center.

Publishable data from this study include: age, sex, marital status, education, occupation, educational intervention based on the health belief model, mean scores (nutritional behavior, perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived threat, perceived benefits , perceived barriers, self-efficacy, guide to action), awareness.

After completing the research and obtaining the necessary results, it will be possible to access the mentioned data.

The data obtained from the research will be available to researchers who intend to design a similar study.

It is possible to use the data to evaluate the impact of training and also perform analyzes that compare the average of the variables.

Researchers can contact the study registrar via email f77.ravaghi@gmail.com to receive data.

The applicant must send the proposal file or code of ethics to the research registrar and after review by the research team, the relevant data will be sent to them within one month.