Training on Good and Green Health Practices in Midwifery Students Awareness Raising and Development of Good Health Practices Awareness Scale
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Not yet recruiting
- Sponsor
- Kocaeli University
- Enrollment
- 300
- Primary Endpoint
- Environmental Awareness and Environmental Behaviour
Study Overview
Brief Summary
In this context, this study aims to increase midwifery students' awareness of good and green health practices and to develop a measurement tool to evaluate their awareness of good health practices. This research is in two stages, the first stage is methodological type, and the second stage will be carried out as a pre-test post-test randomized controlled experimental research between September 2024-2025. In the first stage, the Good Health Practices Awareness Scale will be developed. In the second stage of the study, the Green Culture Scale (pre-test-post-test) will be filled in by the students. The population of this study, which will be carried out in the Midwifery Department of Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Faculty of Health Sciences, will consist of 300 students studying in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th grades of the Midwifery Department of this university. Data of the research; It will be collected with the "Introductory Information Form, Green Culture Scale and Good Health Practices Awareness Scale". Before starting to collect data, an item pool of the Good Health Practices Awareness Scale will be created in line with the literature, the measurement method will be determined and sent to at least ten faculty members who are interested in the subject and experts in the field, their opinions will be taken and scale items will be created in line with their opinions. Then, the purpose of the research will be explained to the students by the researchers and the groups the students belong to will be determined. Before the training, students in all groups will be asked to take the Pretest. Students included in the training group will be trained in good and green health practices in the faculty's conference hall by expert researchers with Conscious Awareness training certificates and the university's green transformation coordinator. Three weeks after the training, all students will take the Green Culture Scale Post-Test. Students in the control group will also receive training at an appropriate time. IBM SPSS Statistics 29 package program will be used for statistical analysis. In evaluating the data obtained as a result of the research, percentage rates, arithmetic mean and standard deviation, t test in dependent and independent groups and Bonferroni analysis will be used to determine where the significance comes from. Results will be evaluated at the 95% confidence interval and significance level of p < .05.
Detailed Description
Type (Design) of Research This research has two stages, the first stage is methodological type and the second stage will be carried out as a pre-test post-test randomised controlled experimental research. In the first stage, Good Health Practices Awareness Scale will be developed. In the second stage of the study, training will be given to Midwifery Department students about Good and Green Health Practices and the effectiveness of the training will be evaluated.
Population and Sample of the Study The research is planned to be conducted at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Midwifery. The population of the study consists of 300 students studying in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th grades of the midwifery department of this university (based on the number of students in the 1st (n = 110), 2nd (n = 96) and 3rd (n = 94) grades of the 2023-2024 academic year). No sample selection will be made in the study, and it is planned that all 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade students will participate in the study. In scale studies, it is stated that the sample size should be at least ten times the number of items. Accordingly, the number of participants will be determined by multiplying the number of items in the scale by 10 to calculate the sample size. If the number of items determined is more than 30, first grade students will also be included in the study. For the second phase of the study, the students will be asked to participate in the training and control group (Training group: 150; Control group: 150). At the end of the research, the relevant sample size will be checked by post hoc power analysis. In the course curriculum of the Midwifery Department of this university, there is no course on environmental awareness, good practices, green practices, etc. In this respect, the variables that may affect the results of the study were tried to be taken under control.
Randomisation Full randomisation technique will be used to assign the participants to the groups. In the study, Random Lists website (https://www.randomlists.com/) was used and each class was divided into two groups by creating a random numbers table (n=150 for the education group and n=150 for the control group).
Data Collection Tools In the study, the data were collected using the "Descriptive Information Form, Green Culture Scale (GCS) and Good Health Practices Awareness Scale (GHPAS).
Introductory Information Form This form, created by the researchers in line with the literature (Perleth et al., 2001; Erötken & Durkan, 2010; Altındiş et al., 2018; Karasu, 2019), consists of two sections and a total of nine questions.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Other
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to 30 Years (Adult)
- Sex
- Female
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria
- •The participants were Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University Midwifery Department 2nd, 3rd and 4th year students,
- •Active students who attend the courses,
- •Students who are willing and volunteer to participate in the study will be included.
Exclusion Criteria
- •Disabled to participate in the research,
- •Has a diagnosed psychiatric diagnosis,
- •Has a communication barrier,
- •Students who do not continue their education and training (registration freeze) will be excluded from the study.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Environmental Awareness and Environmental Behaviour
Time Frame: 3 weeks
In order to determine the awareness levels of the students, it will be applied as a pre-test together with the Green Culture Scale. Three weeks after the training, the same scale will be applied again as a post-test. The higher the score of the students, the better their awareness level will be understood.
Awareness of Good and Green Health Practices
Time Frame: 3 weeks
It will be applied as a pre-test together with the Good Health Practices Awareness Scale in order to determine the awareness levels of the students. Three weeks after the training, the same scale will be applied again as a post-test. The higher the score of the students, the better their awareness level will be understood.
Secondary Outcomes
No secondary outcomes reported
Investigators
Resmiye KAYA ODABAŞ
Asisstant Prof.
Kocaeli University