School-based e-Health Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) Prevention Program

Students will participate in health-promoting sessions delivered by trained facilitators, with each session lasting 30 to 40 minutes. There will be a total of six health-promoting sessions conducted in the classroom for the intervention group, spanning two months with three sessions per month. The health-promoting videos from the school-based eHealth NCD prevention program will be shown in the classroom using multimedia. The drama-based videos will be developed in Urdu Language with English subtitles and will be based on based on contextually relevant content for the Pakistani secondary and higher secondary school students of age 13 to 18 years old. The content of these six sessions will be focused on the leading risk factors associated with NCDs as reported by different studies such as physical inactivity, unhealthy diet and overweight, obesity, harmful alcohol consumption and tobacco use.