Nyia L Noel, Jasmine Abrams, Estefania Rivera Mudafort, Anagha Babu, Emma Forbes, Lauren Hill, Cherie C Hill, Tanika Gray Valbrun, Nkem Osian, Lauren A Wise, Wendy Kuohung
Study protocol for the implementation of Centering Patients with Fibroids, a novel group education and empowerment program for patients with symptomatic uterine fibroids
Reproductive health
hepatitis b virus hbv infection prevention effective early childhood vaccination programme however missed primary prevention modes intervention become alternative recommendation considered occurrence risk exposure virus study sought evaluate outcomes theorybased hbv infection prevention educational intervention among students four selected secondary schools ogun state nigeria quasiexperimental design enrolling 256 consenting secondary school students four schools ogun state randomized three intervention schools consisting teacherinstructed e1 peerdirected e2 combination two e3 respectively control group c implemented theorybased educational intervention six weeks followup period 8 weeks 66item validated instrument used collect data three reference points response items variables study transformed weightedaggregate scores mean standard deviation hbv infection prevention practice participants statistical analysis anova pairedsample ttest cohens effect size es used quantify changes produced intervention outcome variable 5 level significance baseline significant difference p 005 mean hbv infection prevention practice scores four groups e1 1721 303 e2 1557 190 e3 1790 310 c 1520 244 however 14th week follow observed significant differences mean scores hbv infection prevention practices four groups e1 2309 24 e2 226 36 e3 2382 23 c 1525 24 pairedsample ttest conducted demonstrated significant differences baseline 14th week follow e1 1721 307 2318 29 p 0001 e21557 190 2353 312 p 0001 e31790 310 251 26 p 0001 c 1520 244 1525 24 p 092 significant impact es95ci hbv infection prevention practices observed e23106 95ci 266 355 p 0001 importantly participants e2 showed improvement prevention practices counterparts e1 e3 control therefore intervention demonstrated proofofconcept facilitating behavior modification expected peer education utilized strategy promote hepatitis b infection prevention practices among adolescents