The Effectiveness of Health Literacy Development Program for Weight Control among People Living with HIV
Keywords:
Health literacy, Weight control behavior, Program, PLHIVsAbstract
This quasi-experimental research was a two-group pretest-posttest design.The purposes of the research were to study the effects of a health literacy development program on weight control on health literacy and weight control behaviors of people living people with HIV(PLHIV).The samples were PLHIVs receive services at the HIV clinic of Pathum Thani Hospital. The sample was selected by purposive sampling and put into an experimental group and a comparative group with 30 persons each. The program was based on the concept of health literacy development for PLHIV contributed by the National Association of People with HIV in Australia. The 12-week program activities. Research instruments were 1) a health literacy development program of weight control. 2) a handbook of health literacy on weight control for people living with HIVs. 3) questionnaires on health literacy and weight control behaviors. The content validity indexes were .95 and 1.00, respectively. Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of the weight control behaviors questionnaire were .87 and .94, respectively. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and a t-test.
The result revealed as follows: after enrolling in the program, the health literacy and weight control behaviors of the experimental group was better than before enrolling in the program and better than the comparative group to a statistically significant degree at p-value < .05. The body mass index was lower than before enrolling in the program and lower than the comparative group by a statistically significant degree at p-value < .05.
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