Health literacy education in sedentary students

The purpose of this study is to examine the health literacy education in sedentary students. This quasi-experimental study was a pretest-posttest with a control group. 22 sedentary students with a liver grade higher than 1 were purposefully selected and randomly divided into intervention (n = 11) and control (n = 11) groups. The subjects in the intervention group participated in the exercise training protocol for 8 weeks along with the health literacy training program, the control group did not have any intervention. Data were collected through liver ultrasound, blood sampling and body mass index measurement before and after the intervention and analyzed using ANCOVA test and SPSS 20 software. This study shows that performing two interventions of exercise and health literacy simultaneously is effective in improving the fat content of the liver and body mass index of sedentary students and prevents the development of advanced fatty liver.