Migrant Health Promotion Program for University Students

Refugees Clinical Trial

Official title:

Developing Nursing Students Attitudes Towards Refugees Based on Contact Hypothesis: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04069559
• Other study ID #: 2019/101
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 4, 2019
• Est. completion date: August 10, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: August 2019
• Source: Selcuk University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The aim of the study is to determine effect of program about developing nursing students' attitudes towards refugees based on contact hypothesis on Xenophobia, Attitude towards Refugees and Intercultural Sensitivity.

Description:

This Randomized Controlled Trials has been conducted with Bachelor's degree in nursing. Ninety students selected and randomly assigned to the intervention and control group as 45 students. Intervention group received a program about developing refugees health for 12 weeks. The content of this program consists of education and practices for refugees health.

Primary Outcome Measure: Xenophobia, Attitude towards Refugees and Intercultural Sensitivity Scale.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 90
• Est. completion date: August 10, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: May 31, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• The university students in the fourth year of nursing education

Exclusion Criteria:

• Refugees or immigrants students

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Refugees

Intervention

Other:
• To develop nursing students' attitudes towards refugees program which based on contact hypothesis.
In the first three weeks, education were given to the intervention group about refugees. Students watched a film on the theme of migration. After than the students contacted refugees in three different centers ( an immigrant health center, a school and a civil Society Organization) each of them for a total of nine weeks and two days a week.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Turkey	Selcuk University	Konya	Selcuklu
Turkey	Selcuk University	Konya	Selcuklu
Turkey	Selcuk University	Konya

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Selcuk University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Turkey, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Xenophobia,	Xenophobia Scale: The scale consists of 11 items and a single factor structure. The lowest score that can be obtained from Likert type scale (6 options) is 14 and the highest score is 84; The higher the score, the higher the risk of xenophobia.	12 weeks
Primary	Attitude towards Refugees	Attitude towards Refugees Scale: The scale is a likert type (5 options) and has 5 sub-dimensions	12 weeks
Primary	Intercultural Sensitivity	Intercultural Sensitivity Scale: The scale consists of 24 items and is a five-point likert type. The lowest total score that can be obtained from the scale is 24 and the highest total score is 120. The increase in the total score obtained from the scale indicates that the level of cultural sensitivity increased.	12 weeks