Effects of the informed health choices secondary school intervention after 1 year: a prospective meta-analysis using individual participant data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Critical thinking about health choices is essential to avoid being misled by unreliable information and to use reliable information appropriately. The aim of this prospective meta-analysis was to synthesize the results of 1-year follow-up data from three cluster-randomized trials of an intervention designed to teach lower secondary school students to think critically about health choices. Only one other randomized trial has evaluated a school-based intervention to teach adolescents to think critically about health choices. That trial compared two teaching strategies to teach statistical reasoning. It did not assess long-term learning-retention.

Methods

We conducted the trials in Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda. The intervention included providing a 2-3-day teacher train

SUBMITTER: Chesire F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11523815 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature