The Effect of Education Given to Nursing Students on Their Environmental Attitudes: A Randomized Controlled Study
- Conditions
- Nursing Student
- Interventions
- Behavioral: global warming-climate change based education
- Registration Number
- NCT06169189
- Lead Sponsor
- Muş Alparlan University
- Brief 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.
- Detailed 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 & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 110
- volunteering to participate in research
- have verbal communication skills
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Experimental intervention group global warming-climate change based education The experimental group will be given 8-week global warming-climate change based training
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method change of environmental attitude scale baseline to 2 months environmental attitude scale; It was developed by Berberoğlu and Tosunoğlu 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.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Muş Alparslan University
🇹🇷Muş, Turkey