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

Not Applicable
Completed
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
Inclusion Criteria
  • volunteering to participate in research
  • have verbal communication skills
Exclusion Criteria

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Experimental intervention groupglobal warming-climate change based educationThe experimental group will be given 8-week global warming-climate change based training
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
change of environmental attitude scalebaseline 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
NameTimeMethod

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Muş Alparslan University

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Muş, Turkey

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