scholarly journals Evaluation of an AIDS educational mobile game (AIDS Fighter · Health Defense) for young students to improve AIDS-related knowledge, stigma and attitude of high-risk behaviors in China: A Randomized Controlled Trial (Preprint)

10.2196/32400 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Tang ◽  
Yu Zheng ◽  
Zhaolan Yu ◽  
Daiying Zhang ◽  
Xingli Yu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Randomized Controlled Trial ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
High Risk Behaviors ◽  
Mobile Game ◽  
Randomized Controlled ◽  
Young Students

Evaluation of an AIDS educational game (AIDS Fighter · Health Defense) for young students to improve AIDS-related knowledge, stigma and attitude of high-risk behaviors in China: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Tang ◽  
Xingli Yu ◽  
Jianlan Ren ◽  
Mei Li ◽  
Yue Luo
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Intervention Group ◽  
Educational Game ◽  
Control Group ◽  
High Risk Behaviors ◽  
Randomized Controlled ◽  
Young Students ◽  
Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

BACKGROUND The AIDS epidemic among young students is serious, and effective preventive interventions are urgently needed. Game-based intervention has become an innovative way to change healthy behaviors, and we have developed an AIDS educational game called AIDS Fighter · Health Defense. In this study we pilot-tested the effect of an AIDS Fighter · Health Defense for young students to improve AIDS-related knowledge, stigma and attitude of high-risk behaviors in Southwest China. OBJECTIVE To pilot-test the effect of an AIDS educational game (AIDS Fighter · Health Defense) for young students to improve AIDS-related knowledge, stigma and attitude of high-risk behaviors in Southwest China. METHODS A pilot randomized controlled trial was conducted from September 14 to September 27, 2020. Ninety-six students from two classes in a middle school were selected by stratified cluster sampling in Luzhou City, China. The two classes were randomly divided into the intervention group (n=50) and the control group (n=46) . The intervention group received AIDS educational game (AIDS Fighter · Health Defense); the control group learned AIDS-related knowledge through independent learning on the QQ chat group. The AIDS-related knowledge questionnaire, the stigma scale, the attitude questionnaire on AIDS-related high-risk behaviors were used to measure the effect of an AIDS educational game. The user's experience of the game was assessed by the Educational Game User Experience Evaluation Scale. SPSS 21.0 was used to analyze the data, and the difference was statistically significant with P≤0.05. RESULTS After the intervention, the AIDS knowledge awareness rate (X ̅±S, ％) of the intervention group and the control group were 70.09±11.58 and 57.49±16.58（t=4.282, P<0.001）. The stigma scores of the two groups were 2.44±0.57 and 2.48±0.47（t=0.354, P =0.724）, The positive rate (X ̅±S, ％) of attitudes of high-risk AIDS behaviors of the two groups were 82.00±23.44 and 79.62±17.94（t=0.555, P =0.580. A total of 54.73% of users rated the game as excellent, 31.45% of good, 13.09% of medium, and 0.73% of poor. CONCLUSIONS AIDS Fighter · Health Defense could increase the AIDS-related knowledge among young students, but the effect in reducing AIDS-related stigma and improving the attitudes of high-risk AIDS behaviors has not appeared. Long-term effects and large-scale studies are needed to assess the efficacy of game-based intervention. CLINICALTRIAL Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (ChiCTR2000038230)

scholarly journals Effectiveness of Yoga Lifestyle on Lipid Metabolism in a Vulnerable Population—A Community Based Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial

Medicines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Raghuram Nagarathna ◽  
Saurabh Kumar ◽  
Akshay Anand ◽  
Ishwara N. Acharya ◽  
Amit Kumar Singh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Randomized Controlled Trial ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Density Lipoprotein ◽  
Lipid Profiles ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Randomized Controlled ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Yoga Group ◽  
The Impact

Background: Dyslipidemia poses a high risk for cardiovascular disease and stroke in Type 2 diabetes (T2DM). There are no studies on the impact of a validated integrated yoga lifestyle protocol on lipid profiles in a high-risk diabetes population. Methods: Here, we report the results of lipid profile values of 11,254 (yoga 5932 and control 5322) adults (20–70 years) of both genders with high risk (≥60 on Indian diabetes risk score) for diabetes from a nationwide rural and urban community-based two group (yoga and conventional management) cluster randomized controlled trial. The yoga group practiced a validated integrated yoga lifestyle protocol (DYP) in nine day camps followed by daily one-hour practice. Biochemical profiling included glycated hemoglobin and lipid profiles before and after three months. Results: There was a significant difference between groups (p < 0.001 ANCOVA) with improved serum total cholesterol, triglycerides, low-density lipoprotein, and high-density lipoprotein in the yoga group compared to the control group. Further, the regulatory effect of yoga was noted with a significant decrease or increase in those with high or low values of lipids, respectively, with marginal or no change in those within the normal range. Conclusion: Yoga lifestyle improves and regulates (lowered if high, increased if low) the blood lipid levels in both genders of prediabetic and diabetic individuals in both rural and urban Indian communities.

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