Clinical Trial Details
— Status: Completed
Administrative data
| NCT number |
NCT05633485 |
| Other study ID # |
2021-SIÜSBF-032 |
| Secondary ID |
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| Status |
Completed |
| Phase |
N/A
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| First received |
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| Last updated |
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| Start date |
February 1, 2022 |
| Est. completion date |
July 30, 2022 |
Study information
| Verified date |
November 2022 |
| Source |
Siirt University |
| Contact |
n/a |
| Is FDA regulated |
No |
| Health authority |
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| Study type |
Interventional
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Clinical Trial Summary
Introduction: The COVID-19 epidemic and related mutations, which affect the whole world,
continue to increase globally. In particular, this crisis adversely affects school-age
children's quality of life.
Method: The study was carried out between February and April 2022 following the experimental
research criteria with the pretest-posttest-retest control group. The research population
consists of 4th-grade primary school students studying in schools affiliated with the Siirt
Directorate of National Education. The sample consists of 148 students studying in the 4th
grade at two schools deemed suitable for the conduct of the study. Data were collected using
data collection materials, the Descriptive Questionnaire, and the General Child Quality of
Life Scale.
Results: The mean age of all students participating in the study was 10.53±2.60, 53% of the
students were girls, and 47% were boys. It has been determined that 36.0% of the Students
have not received any training on COVID-19 before, 32.4% of them did not take precautions to
defend themselves from COVID-19 disease, and it is not possible to protect 48.4% of them from
COVID-19 disease even if adequate precautions are taken. It was found that the difference
between the pretest, posttest, and retest mean scores of the Students in the experimental
group on the quality of life scale was statistically significant (p < 0.05). It was
determined that the mean of life quality increased immediately after the training but
decreased in the measurements one month later.
Conclusion: Education to be given to school-age children should be developed with
animation-supported programs.
Description:
The new type of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), which emerged in China in December 2019, has
spread rapidly worldwide. It was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization
on March 11, 2020 (WHO, 2020). COVID-19 poses a significant threat to the entire society. For
this, educational institutions that seem to be risky among the measures taken worldwide have
been closed (1). For this reason, it has been decided to continue all education activities
through distance education from November 20, 2020, until January 4, 2021. Afterward, it was
decided to conduct face-to-face education and training activities in certain stages (2,3).
The importance of education and information activities to prevent COVID-19 disease and reduce
the spread of the disease is indisputable. Due to the initiation of face-to-face education,
informing school-age children about prevention from the epidemic plays a crucial role in
making the school environment safe (4). One of the methods that can be used to inform
school-age children about COVID-19 is animations created within the scope of play therapy
because animations provide psychomotor, cognitive, social, and emotional development of
children and give them positive behaviors and habits (5-7). Concordantly, nurses who stay in
close and long-term communication with children, as are with all segments of society, have
tremendous responsibilities. Providing accessible, accurate, and evidence-based health
information about the epidemic is among the accountabilities of nurses (8). Benefiting from
theories and models that offer a professional approach to nursing has many benefits, such as
increasing the quality of education, guiding practice, and increasing the health level of
individuals (9). For this purpose, the health promotion model (10), created by Pender is
suitable to be used in nursing studies carried out to protect against COVID-19 disease
