Improving Health Knowledge Through Provision of Free Digital Health Education to Rural Communities in Iringa, Tanzania: Nonrandomized Intervention Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Community health education is one of the most effective measures to increase health literacy worldwide and can contribute to the achievement of specific targets of the Sustainable Development Goal 3. Digitalized health education materials can improve health knowledge as a dimension of health literacy and play an important role in disease prevention in rural sub-Saharan settings.

Objective

The objective of this research is to assess the effect of a digital health education intervention on the uptake and retention of knowledge related to HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), and Taenia solium (neuro)cysticercosis and taeniosis in rural communities in Iringa, Tanzania.

Methods

We conducted a nonrandomized intervention study of participants aged 15 to 45 years, randomly

SUBMITTER: Holst C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9377432 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature