Social Justice Advocacy Skills and Ethical Sensitivity

Educational Problems Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Effect of Advocacy Education on Developing Social Justice Advocacy Skills and Ethical Sensitivity in Undergraduate Nursing Students: A Randomized Controlled Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04578821
• Other study ID #: t5y4gddx
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: September 26, 2019
• Est. completion date: December 26, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: October 2020
• Source: Necmettin Erbakan University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The aim of this study is to determine the effect of advocacy education on social justice advocacy skills and ethical sensitivity in undergraduate nursing students.

Description:

Advocacy is an effort to correct or change situations that affect people, society and systems.The origin of advocacy is to provide active support in the Latin "Advocates" dictionary. It is defined as "defense work" in Turkish dictionary advocacy is an ethical dimension of nursing practices in nursing science that shows how nursing care is needed and how the nurse will approach the individual, group and society in need.Social justice advocacy has an increasing importance as people are affected by pressure from the social system.Disease, weakness and early deaths are more common in ethnic and diverse races, poor people and societies that do not receive services.Within the scope of advocacy, the duties and responsibilities of individuals, families and society have been determined by laws and regulations in order to protect and improve the health of the society. Advocacy is the nurse's professional role and ethical responsibility.Total 80 students (İntervention and control group)was selected randomly from 112 4 th grade student. Students were randomly assigned to the experimental group(n=40) and the control group(n=40). The experimental group students will take advocacy intervention courses The control group students will the routine curriculum. In this study, effect size will be determined with 5% error margin by using sample size power analysis Gpower 3.1.9.2 program. Accordingly, it was calculated that 35 students were included in the intervention and control groups with 5% error margin and 80% power. İt was decided to include at least 40 people in each working group with 20% surplus, considering that they might be lost in data collection. Theoretical education, film and video screening, case study, Social Security Institution (SSİ) Study, WEB based work, The student will preparation of advocacy action plan, students prepared poster and advocacy awareness activity, poster were exhibited at the campus. Data Collection Tools: Student Information Form, Social Justice Advocacy Scale , Moral-Ethical Sensitivity Scale. Statistical Analysis:Similarity of experimental and control groups; number, percentage, average and standard deviation, pre-test, post test; scale scores difference in dependent groups t-test.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 80
• Est. completion date: December 26, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: October 3, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Student who speak very well Turkish

Exclusion Criteria:

• Foreign students who do not speak very well Turkish.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Educational Problems
• Hypersensitivity

Intervention

Other:
• Educational intervention
Educational intervention

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Turkey	Necmettin Erbakan University	Konya,

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Nesime Demirören	Necmettin Erbakan University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Turkey, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Social Justice Advocacy Scale score level	Score level of social justice advocacy skill before advocacy education	At the beginning of advocacy education, an avarage of 1 hour
Primary	Moral Sensitivity Questionnaire score level	Score level of moral sensitivity questionnaire before advocacy education. Similarity of experimental and control groups; number, percentage, average and standard deviation.	At the beginning of advocacy education, an avarage of 1 hour
Secondary	Social Justice Advocacy Scale	Changes in the score level of social justice advocacy skill after advocacy education	12 weeks
Secondary	Moral Sensitivity Questionnaire	Changes in the score level of moral sensitivity questionnaire	12 weeks