One-year follow-up effects of the informed health choices secondary school intervention on students' ability to think critically about health in Uganda: a cluster randomized trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

We assessed the effects of the Informed Health Choices (IHC) secondary school intervention on students' ability to think critically about choices 1 year after the intervention.

Methods

We randomized eighty secondary schools to the intervention or control (usual curriculum). The schools were randomly selected from the central region of Uganda and included rural and urban, government, and privately-owned schools. One randomly selected class of year-2 students (ages 14-17) from each school participated in the trial. The intervention included a 2-day teacher training workshop, 10 lessons accessed online by teachers and delivered in classrooms during one school term (May-August 2022). The lessons addressed nine prioritized IHC concepts. We used two multiple-choice qu

SUBMITTER: Ssenyonga R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11863962 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature