A randomized control trial: training program of university students as health promoters.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Several studies have reported the following as determining factors for the adoption of healthy lifestyles among undergraduate students: gender, socioeconomic level, prior lifestyles, environment, parental lifestyles and health status, career choice, and healthy support networks. However, these factors are influenced by students' knowledge about healthy lifestyles.

Methods/design

We will carry out a randomized trial in a sample of 280 new undergraduate students at the National Autonomous University of Mexico's Faculty of Higher Studies-Zaragoza (FES-Zaragoza, UNAM). There will be an experimental group (n = 140), comprising 20 students from each of the seven university departments (careers); these students will receive training as university student health promoters

SUBMITTER: Mendoza-Nunez VM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3608970 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature