Effect of a mobile-based health education program on health-related knowledge and behaviors among primary school students
Objective To investigate the effect of a mobile-based salt reduction health education program(EduS-altS)on health-related knowledge and behaviors among primary school students.Methods EduSaltS was implemented in 168 schools across Zhenjiang City and Ganzhou City from October 2022 to July 2023.The primary school students in Grade 3rd participated in the curriculum through an applet named"Jian Yan Yun Ke Tang.The students were classified into good,medium and poor performance groups based on their total points gained from the curriculum.They completed a self-test of health-related knowledge and behavior via the applet before and after the curriculum.The results were analyzed by converting the test scores into a percentage score.Results A total of 27 533 students from 167 schools completed both tests,account-ing for 65.5％of students participating in the curriculum and 22716(82.5％)of respondents fell in the good and medium performance groups.The average health-related knowledge and behavior scores improved by 5.6 and 3.3 points,respective-ly,and the total test score increased by 4.8 points after the curriculum.After adjusting for other factors,the improvement of the good and the medium performance groups compared with the poor performance group was 4.95 scores(95％CI:4.56-5.35)and 2.16 scores(95％CI:1.81-2.52).Conclusion The implementation of EduSaltS is effective to improve the health knowledge and behaviors of primary school children.It is recommended to explore continuous scaling-up of the curricu-lum by integrating it into the health education system.
Health educationMobile healthOnline surveySchoolChildren
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