The Effect of Educational Intervention Based on the Self-Efficacy Theory on the Healthy Lifestyle of Health Brokers of People&#039;s Home for Participation in Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, 2024

khounani, Marzieh; Shojaeizadeh, Davoud; Jalili, Zahra

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khounani M, Shojaeizadeh D, Jalili Z. The Effect of Educational Intervention Based on the Self-Efficacy Theory on the Healthy Lifestyle of Health Brokers of People's Home for Participation in Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, 2024. sjsph 2025; 22 (4) :373-388
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The Effect of Educational Intervention Based on the Self-Efficacy Theory on the Healthy Lifestyle of Health Brokers of People's Home for Participation in Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, 2024

Marzieh Khounani¹

, Davoud Shojaeizadeh ^*²

, Zahra Jalili³

1- MSc. Department of Health Education and Health Promotion, Sciences and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran, MSc. Department of Health Education and Health Promotion, Sciences and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2- Ph.D. Professor, Health Education, Department of Health Education and Health Promotion, Sciences and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran , Shogae5@yahoo.com
3- Ph.D. Associate Professor, Health Education, Department of Health Education and Health Promotion, Sciences and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Health Education, Department of Health Education and Health Promotion, Sciences and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

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Background and Aim: Health brokers are responsible for conveying messages related to a healthy lifestyle to the target community, who are selected by them in the public participation houses, otherwise called People's Home for Participation in Health (PHPH). Implementing focused educational interventions can strengthen the self-efficacy of health brokers in performing health-promoting behaviors. The aim of the study was to determine the effect of educational intervention based on self-efficacy theory on the healthy lifestyle of health brokers.

Materials and Methods: This was a quasi-experimental and interventional study with a pretest-posttest design and a control group in 2024. The statistical population included health brokers in PHPHs affiliated with Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Using the simple random sampling method 4 participating households were selected as the experimental group, the rest acting as the control group; the total number of participants was 74. Four 2-hour training sessions were held for the experimental group, and reviewing of the topics and assignments and answering questions were done through a virtual training group. Data were collected using standard "self-efficacy" and "health-promoting lifestyle" questionnaires and analyzed using SPSS 28, the statistical tests being Chi-square, T-test, Pearson, and Kolmogorov–Smirnov tests.

Results: After the intervention, the health-promoting lifestyle score increased from 30.40±21.00 to 168.31±24.71 and the health self-efficacy from 68.57±10.21 to 84.57±11.84 in the experimental group (P<0.001). The highest significant correlation was observed between lifestyle dimensions and self-efficacy (r=0.741)

Conclusion: The findings of this study show that training based on self-efficacy theory can improve healthy lifestyle behaviors in brokers and can be used as an effective strategy in health education.

Keywords: Health Brokers, Peoples Home for Participation in Health, Self-Efficacy Theory, Health-Promoting Lifestyle

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Type of Study: Research | Subject: Public Health

* Corresponding Author Address: Ph.D. Professor, Health Education, Department of Health Education and Health Promotion, Sciences and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran