Effect of Psychoeducational Intervention about Immune Health on Perceived Physical and Psychological Health Among Working Women at Damanhour University/Egypt: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Assess the Effect of Psychoeducational Intervention about Immune Health on Perceived Physical and Psychological Health Among Working Women

A randomized controlled trial, single-blind, case and control groups, pre-post intervention measurement.

It will be conducted in five colleges affiliated with Damanhour University, Egypt.

Adult women working in the selected colleges for at least one year before initiating the study and enthusiastic to participate in this study

The investigators will assess the women’s educational needs and their past and current immune and health status by completing the pre-test. They will construct the content of the psycho-educational intervention with multimedia-assisted materials. Topics will include relationship between physical and psychological health, definition, importance, and types of physical and psychological immunity, chronic fatigue syndrome and its relationship with psychological health status, and the role of lifestyle activities control and self-efficacy in improving immunity, exploring the symptoms and sources of stress and how to manage by using effective coping techniques: breathing exercises, relaxation techniques, sleep hygiene, social activities, and maintaining self-control over lifestyles. They will receive ten Face-to-Face psychoeducational sessions. During the first month, two sessions/week, while during the second month, one session/two weeks. Digital supporting and motivating messages were delivered. Post-test will be after 3 months.

Physical health: participants’ perceived physical immune status, health lifestyles, and personal control status measured by self-reported scales. Psychological health: participants’ perceived psychological immunity status, stress, and fatigue levels measured by self-reported measures.

The target group for this study will be women working in the selected colleges. They were selected using a cluster sampling technique (five colleges). - A purposive sample of five colleges from Damanhour University will be selected based on having the highest number of female workers (Education, nursing, commerce, literature, and agriculture colleges) according to the latest data available from the university statistical center. - A list will be created with the whole eligible female workers. - The lottery system will be deployed by placing all the workers' names in a hat and then randomly selecting our sample without looking. -Seventy percent of the female workers from each college will be recruited using the proportional allocation technique. - Then they will be equally and randomly assigned to the intervention and comparison groups using a simple random method (Lottery method).

The investigator who conducted the statistical analysis will not engaged in the overall data collection process. The investigators who will collect the data enter them into the SPSS program using hidden codes from the analyzer. After finishing the data analysis process using predetermined codes, they will contacted to interpret the codes of both groups: intervention group "A" and comparison group "B."

Published research report that contains all the findings of the study.

After publication and will be available long life

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for scientific use and public education

Scientific-ranked health journal

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