The Effect of Education Given to Nursing Students on Their Environmental Attitudes: A Randomized Controlled Study

Nursing Student Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Effect of Education Given to Nursing Students on Their Environmental Attitudes: A Randomized Controlled Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06169189
• Other study ID #: 05.10.23/8-19
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: October 15, 2023
• Est. completion date: January 16, 2024

Study information

• Verified date: May 2024
• Source: Mus Alparlan University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study is conducted to examine the effect of climate change and global warming-based education given to nursing students on their environmental attitudes. The research was planned as a randomized controlled experimental. According to the posthoc power analysis, it was determined that the type one error amount was 0.05 with a medium effect size and the power of the study was 94% when 110 participants were taken. The data were included from the 2nd, 3rd and 4th grades of a nursing faculty in eastern Turkey. Assignments were made to experimental and control groups by randomization. Personal information form and environmental attitude scale were used to collect data.

Description:

Climate change and global warming are a global public health problem. This situation, which affects all masses, also deeply affects human life. Future nurses need to have high awareness of this situation and educate and inform the society about this situation. Nurse students' environmental attitudes, knowledge and behavior towards the environment need to be increased. The aim of this research is to determine the effect of global warming and climate change-based education given to nursing students on their environmental attitudes.The research was planned as a randomized controlled experimental. According to the posthoc power analysis, it was determined that the type one error amount was 0.05 with a medium effect size and the power of the study was 94% when 110 participants were taken. The data were included from the 2nd, 3rd and 4th grades of a nursing faculty in eastern Turkey. Assignments were made to experimental and control groups by randomization. Personal information form and environmental attitude scale were used to collect data.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 110
• Est. completion date: January 16, 2024
• Est. primary completion date: January 15, 2024
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 30 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• volunteering to participate in research

• have verbal communication skills

Exclusion Criteria:

-

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Nursing Student

Intervention

Behavioral:
• global warming-climate change based education
The experimental group will be given 8 weeks of global warming-climate change based training. No intervention will be applied to the control group.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Turkey	Mus Alparslan University	Mus

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Mus Alparlan University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Turkey, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	change of environmental attitude scale	environmental attitude scale; It was developed by Berberoglu and Tosunoglu to determine the environmental attitudes of university students. The scale is a 5-point Likert type and consists of 21 items. The scale contains 11 reverse items. These items are reverse coded. It is stated that the Cronbach alpha of the scale is 0.77.	baseline to 2 months