Rahman Panahi|Fatemeh Samiei Siboni|Mansoure Kheiri|Khadije Jahangasht Ghoozlu|Mahya Shafaei|Leila Dehghankar
Promoting the adoption of behaviors to prevent osteoporosis using the health belief model integrated with health literacy: quasi-experimental intervention study
Tarbiat Modares University|Qazvin University of Medical Sciences|Iranshahr University|Shahroud University of Medical Sciences|Iranshahr University|Babol University of Medical Sciences|Qazvin University of Medical Sciences|Iranshahr University|Qazvin University of Medical Sciences|Iranshahr University
health belief model hbm effective preventing osteoporosis promoting health literacy hl regard critical points role hl preventing osteoporosis adoption preventive behaviors adoption behaviors including physical activity role health volunteers transmitting health messages community considering aforesaid points study performed among health volunteers aimed determine effect educational intervention based integrated hbm hl walking nutrition behaviors prevent osteoporosisin quasiexperimental intervention study 140 health volunteers 70 people two intervention control groups enrolled study using multistage random sampling 2020 members intervention group received elearning social media software 4 times 4 weeks week provided educational booklets pamphlets data collection tools included demographic background questionnaires standard questionnaire based hbm awareness walking nutrition behaviors prevent osteoporosis helia questionnaire measure hl questionnaires completed two stages 3 months intervention educational intervention study sent intervention group 4 stages collected data analyzed using proportional tests paired ttest wilcoxon test independent ttest mannwhitney test spss software version 23the mean standard deviation related score adoption nutrition behaviors beginning study intervention group 5398 1447 changed 8446 1244 3 months indicating significant increase adoption behaviors p 0009 control group mean standard deviation scores adoption nutrition behaviors changed 5451 1222 6003 1005 statistically significant p 0351 also mean standard deviation related scores adoption walking behavior beginning study intervention group 8956 0261 changed 13457 0587 3 months indicating significant increase adoption behaviors p 0001 control group mean standard deviation related scores adoption walking behavior changed 8848 0353 9025 0545 statistically significant p 0211 prior intervention significant difference two groups regarding variables demographic background knowledge constructs model hl adoption walking nutrition behaviors p 005 intervention comparison two groups showed significant change mean scores awareness constructs model hl adoption preventive behaviors intervention group control group p 005the educational intervention based hbm integrated hl effective acceptable correcting promoting walking nutrition behaviors prevent osteoporosis among health volunteers therefore said intervention implemented line developed model used