Emotional experiences of reading health educational manga encouraging behavioral changes: a non-randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Educational health manga are used to promote health behavior change. This study thus seeks to achieve the following objectives: identify the emotional experience of reading educational health manga, understand the effects of facilitating the psychological mediators of behavior change through emotional experiences, and compare the effectiveness of educational health manga with conventional materials.

Design

A non-randomized controlled trial with six conditions was conducted. Target behaviors were physical activity and healthy diet. Individuals aged 20-69 years (n = 1,680) were assigned three manga intervention conditions and three control conditions (visual image-based, narrative text, and general text material).

Main outcome measures

Participants were

SUBMITTER: Shimazaki T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8159205 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature