Student Behavior in School Accident Precautions

Not Applicable

Not yet recruiting

• Conditions: Health Behavior
• Interventions: Behavioral: Education

• Registration Number: NCT05576987
• Lead Sponsor: Afyonkarahisar Health Sciences University

Brief Summary

Accidents are an important public health problem due to temporary or permanent disability and deaths. Injuries are among the most important causes of death and lifelong disability between the ages of 5-14. Children at these ages spend long hours at school and are physically very active in school. It is reported that 15% of child accidents occur at school. For this reason, it is important to increase the standard of knowledge of children to improve their behavior towards safety precautions.

Purpose of this study is to research the impact of the education that has given towards the health belief model, for the behavior of children about precautions against school accidents. This study is Quasi-experimental study. There will a experiment and a control group in the study. Within the scope of the study, the researcher will train students about school accidents and how to prevent them for 30 minutes a week at the total of 4 weeks. No intervention will be applied to the control group. The scale will be applied to the students, before the training and afterwards to determine the behaviors of students towards safety precautions in school accidents.

Detailed Description

The behavior score averages and standard deviations of the two groups in a previous study (Dilek, 2018) and the effect size were calculated to determine the sample size of the study. Power analysis (significance level 0.05 for type 1 error, effect size 0.50, and power 0.95). (Gpower 3.1 version) was carried out. In the power analysis, the minimum number of participants was 87 in the experimental group and 87 in the control group.

In this context, the research will be conducted with 100 participants in each group, taking into account the possibility that non-parametric statistics may need to be used due to the non-normal distribution of the dependent variable, incomplete and erroneous data, and absenteeism.

Experimental and control groups will be selected from the branches 3rd and 4th grade. 3 branches will be selected for the experimental group and 3 branches for the control group. Branches will be determined by drawing. In order not to interfere with the education of students during the training, the groups will be designated as class branches.

Ethical permission was obtained from the Ethics Committee of Afyonkarahisar Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi (Afyonkarahisar Health Sciences University) (date: 03.June 2022; Number: 2022/340)

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2022-09-26
• Status Verified: 2022-10
• Study Start: 2022-10-05
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-10-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-10-09
• Study First Posted: 2022-10-13
• Last Update Posted: 2022-10-13
• Primary Completion: 2022-10-26
• Study Completion: 2022-10-26

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 200

Inclusion Criteria

• Being educated in 3rd and 4th grade
• Volunteer to participate in the research
• Consent of the student's parent
• Speak and understand Turkish

Exclusion Criteria

• Being visually and hearing impaired
• Using a language other than Turkish
• Not willing to participate in the study

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
intervention group	Education	Experimental group will be selected from the branches 3rd and 4th grade. 3 branches will be selected for the experimental group. Branches will be determined by drawing. In order not to interfere with the education of students during the training, the groups will be designated as class branches.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Behavior Towards The Security Precautions Against School Accidents	4 weeks	Scale of Behavior Towards The Security Precautions Against School Accidents: Student behaviors will be determined with this scale. It is a 5-point Likert-type scale consisting of 40 items and was developed by Gür and Yıldız (2009). The scale's Cronbach's Alpha reliability coefficient is .81. There are "Always", "Often", "Sometimes", "Rarely", "Never" options for each item in the scale. For each question, "Always" receives 5 points, "Often" receives 4 points, "Sometimes" 3 points, "Rarely" 2 points, and "Never" receives 1 point. 2., 3., 4., 5., 7., 10., 12., 20., 21., 22., 26., 32., 34., 36., 37., 38., 39. questions are scored in the opposite direction. Each student can get a minimum of 40 points and a maximum of 200 points. The highest score obtained from the scale shows that the student takes the security measures for school accidents at the highest level.