Health Promotion and Management for Hepatitis B Carriers

Project of Health Promotion and Management for Hepatitis B Carriers in NTU Campus

The investigators propose a project of preventive medicine with concern of local context in Taiwan. The target population includes all staff and faculty members, students, and alumni of a university in Northern Taiwan, with chronic hepatitis B infection. The intervention of this project includes standardized lectures, sports courses, nutrition courses, and an information platform. The investigators will evaluate the efficacy after the intervention, like the reduction of hepatitis B viral load and the associated anthropometric parameters. The results of this project will be initially served as a pilot study for this cohort, and applicated as a promising basis for health promotion.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Participants were recruited from students, alumni, faculty and staff members with chronic HBV infection (positive HBsAg serostatus ≥6 months) in a university of northern Taiwan from August 1, 2009 to July 01, 2010. Only participants aged 18 and older were included.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Excluded were:

  • (a) those who had been diagnosed as chronic liver diseases like chronic hepatitis C infection (Anti-HCV (+)), autoimmune hepatitis, Wilson disease, alcoholic liver diseases, drug-related hepatitis, decompensated liver diseases, cirrhosis, or malignant hepatic tumors;

• (b) those who had undergone liver transplantation or major operations for liver except cholecystectomy;

• (c) men who consumed more than 30 gram of alcohol per week or women who consumed more than 20 gram of alcohol per week;

• (d) women who were pregnant;

• (e) those who had current medications for any types of chronic diseases except for hyperglycemia, elevated blood pressure, or dyslipidemia within six months.