فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

BACKGROUND: Students must be made aware about the essentiality of optimum level of physicalactivity and the fact that it is the key to good health and an important technique to prevent and controla lot of noncommunicable diseases including depression and other related mental ill‑health.MATERIALS AND METHODS: It was an institution‑based intervention study among 187 Madrasahstudents of classes VII and VIII, conducted in five‑phase assessment of the training needs ofMadrasah students on different aspects of healthy lifestyle, development of a need‑based moduleto be used by teachers to impart training of students through classroom setting, training of teachersto use the module to train students, training of students by the trained teachers in classroom setting,and evaluation of effectiveness of the training module.RESULTS: The mean pretest knowledge score in study Madrasah was 2.64 ± 1.35 (Mean ± SD)and post test score was 4.13 ± 0.88 (Mean ± SD). In paired t‑test, t‑value was 13.54 and P < 0.05with effect size of 1.370 (Cohen’s d). Practice related to the mean score in pretest was 2.38 ± 1.08and posttest score was 2.73 ± 1.03. In paired test, t‑value was 6.25 and P < 0.05 with effect size of0.458 (Cohen’s d).CONCLUSIONS: The study revealed the effectiveness of training by teachers using the moduledeveloped by the researcher to address significant changes in lifestyle‑related issues.