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The effect of health promoting lifestyle training on elderly’s happiness.

Protocol summary

Summary
Purpose of the study is to determine impact of health promoting lifestyle on happiness among older adults. Inclusion criteria: age 60 or over; being interested in and consent to participate in research; being able to read and write; obtaining the defined score of questionnaires; independence from any special diet ; no history of acute events caused physical and psychological problems (accident, death of a family member, etc) during the past month. Exclusion criteria: Canceling the cooperation; failure to complete more than 50 percent of the questionnaires; failure to attend in more than one session of training sessions. The sample includes 70 persons selected by sampling the population of all older adults, age 60 and over, who are covered by retirement fund of social Security centers, education center and health care centers in Ramsar. They are divided into two groups of test and control, randomly and by considering matched group. For test group, Intervention is done by holding 8 sessions of 60-45 minutes face to face health promoting behaviors' training; two sessions per week, for 4 weeks, by method of lecturing, group discussion, PowerPoint presentations, and by providing manuals, pamphlets and CDs. After the meetings, follow-ups and consultations will continue by telephone for 1 month in order to remind and control activities. 3 months after the training sessions, the questionnaires will be completed by both groups in the presence of researcher. The expected impact is to obtain higher score from happiness questionnaire.

General information

Acronym
IRCT registration information
IRCT registration number: IRCT2017031533087N1
Registration date: 2017-04-15, 1396/01/26
Registration timing: retrospective

Last update:
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Registration date
2017-04-15, 1396/01/26
Registrant information
Name
Razieh Torabi Chafjiri
Name of organization / entity
Babol University Of Medical Sciences
Country
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Phone
+98 13 4262 0507
Email address
r.torabi@mubabol.ac.ir
Recruitment status
Recruitment complete
Funding source
Babol University Of Medical Sciences
Expected recruitment start date
2016-12-20, 1395/09/30
Expected recruitment end date
2017-02-18, 1395/11/30
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Actual recruitment end date
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Trial completion date
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Scientific title
The effect of health promoting lifestyle training on elderly’s happiness.
Public title
The effect of education on happiness
Purpose
Other
Inclusion/Exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: age 60 or over; being interested in and consent to participate in research (Informed consent); being able to read and write; obtaining score 8 and higher on abbreviated mental test; obtaining less than the average score on happiness questionnaire; obtaining independent score of daily activities questionnaire; absence of known acute and chronic disease; independence from any special diet; no history of acute events caused physical and psychological problems (accident, death of a family member, etc) during the past month. Exclusion criteria: Canceling the cooperation; failure to complete more than 50 percent of health promoting lifestyle questionnaire and happiness questionnaire; failure to attend in more than one session of training sessions for health promotion behaviors.
Age
From 60 years old
Gender
Both
Phase
N/A
Groups that have been masked
No information
Sample size
Target sample size: 70
Randomization (investigator's opinion)
Randomized
Randomization description
Blinding (investigator's opinion)
Not blinded
Blinding description
Placebo
Not used
Assignment
Parallel
Other design features

Secondary Ids

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Ethics committees

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Ethics committee
Name of ethics committee
University of Medical Sciences
Street address
Department of Health Research and Technology Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Gangafrooz Street
City
Babol
Postal code
Approval date
2017-02-11, 1395/11/23
Ethics committee reference number
MUBABOL.HRI.REC.1395.87

Health conditions studied

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Description of health condition studied
Healthy Aging
ICD-10 code
ICD-10 code description

Primary outcomes

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Description
Happiness
Timepoint
Before the intervention, 3 months after intervention
Method of measurement
Oxford Happiness Questionnaire

Secondary outcomes

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Description
Promoting lifestyle behaviors
Timepoint
Before the intervention, 3 months after intervention
Method of measurement
Promoting lifestyle behaviors

Intervention groups

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Description
For Intervention group, Intervention is done by holding 8 sessions of 60-45 minutes face to face health promoting behaviors' training; two sessions per week, for 4 weeks, by method of lecturing, group discussion, PowerPoint presentations, and by providing manuals, pamphlets and CDs. After the meetings, follow-ups and consultations will continue by telephone for 1 month in order to remind and control activities. 3 months after the training sessions, the questionnaires will be completed by both groups in the presence of researcher.
Category
Lifestyle

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Description
The control group will not receive any intervention.
Category
N/A

Recruitment centers

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Recruitment center
Name of recruitment center
Institute for Social Security retirement
Full name of responsible person
Alimohammad Khatami
Street address
Imam Khomeini Square
City
Ramsar

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Recruitment center
Name of recruitment center
Retirement Center, Ministry of Education
Full name of responsible person
Ali Naqi Pahlavan Yali
Street address
Rajaei St, Ramsar, Mazandaran
City
Ramsar

Sponsors / Funding sources

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Sponsor
Name of organization / entity
Research Department Babol University of Medical Sciences
Full name of responsible person
Reza Ghadimi
Street address
Babol University of Medical Sciences, Gangafrooz St
City
Babol
Grant name
Grant code / Reference number
Is the source of funding the same sponsor organization/entity?
Yes
Title of funding source
Research Department Babol University of Medical Sciences
Proportion provided by this source
100
Public or private sector
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Domestic or foreign origin
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Category of foreign source of funding
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Country of origin
Type of organization providing the funding
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Person responsible for general inquiries

Contact
Name of organization / entity
School of Nursing and Midwifery Fatima Ramsar, Babol University of Medical Sciences
Full name of responsible person
Razieh Torabi chafjiri
Position
Geriatric Nursing Student
Other areas of specialty/work
Street address
School of Nursing Fatima, Imam Sajjad Hospital
City
Ramsar
Postal code
Phone
+98 11 5522 5151
Fax
Email
Maryamtorabi32@gmail.com & R.Torabi@mubabol.ac.ir
Web page address

Person responsible for scientific inquiries

Contact
Name of organization / entity
Babol University of Medical Sciences
Full name of responsible person
Hengameh karimi
Position
Master of Nursing
Other areas of specialty/work
Street address
School of Nursing Fatima
City
Ramsar
Postal code
Phone
+98 11 5522 5151
Fax
Email
hengamehkarimister@gmail.com & h.Karimi@Mubabol.ac.ir
Web page address

Person responsible for updating data

Contact
Name of organization / entity
Babol University of Medical Sciences
Full name of responsible person
Razieh torabi chafjiri
Position
Geriatric Nursing Student
Other areas of specialty/work
Street address
School of Nursing Fatima, Imam Sjad Hospital
City
Ramsar
Postal code
Phone
+98 11 5522 5151
Fax
Email
R.Torabi@mubabol.ac.ir
Web page address

Sharing plan

Deidentified Individual Participant Data Set (IPD)
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Study Protocol
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Statistical Analysis Plan
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Informed Consent Form
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Clinical Study Report
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Analytic Code
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Data Dictionary
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