The Effects of Digital Media Privacy Literacy Education on Children's Autonomy, Decision-making and Privacy Awareness
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- Ataturk University
- Enrollment
- 184
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Introductory Information Form
Study Overview
Brief Summary
The purpose of this randomized controlled experimental study is to evaluate the effects of digital privacy literacy education on children's autonomy, decision-making and privacy awareness.The hypotheses of the study are as follows; H1a: Digital privacy literacy education has an effect on children's autonomy. H1b: Digital privacy literacy education has an effect on children's decision-making.
H1c: Digital privacy literacy education has an effect on children's privacy awareness.
Detailed Description
The research will be conducted with 4th grade students (9-12 years old) who are receiving education in a primary school affiliated to Ağrı Provincial Directorate of National Education and who meet the inclusion criteria. Students will be divided into 2 groups as experimental and control groups by simple random method. Digital environment privacy literacy training will be provided to the experimental group, while no training will be provided to the control group. Data will be collected using "Child Information Form", "Autonomy Survey" and "Primary School Students' Privacy Consciousness Scale".
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Health Services Research
- Masking
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
Masking Description
Data collection tools will be collected by an interviewer independent of the research.
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 9 Years to 12 Years (Child)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria
- •Being in the 4th grade of primary school
- •Not being an inclusive student
- •Parent's written consent to participate in the research
- •Child's verbal consent to participate in the research
Exclusion Criteria
- •Child/parent wants to leave the study at any stage
- •Child does not attend the training sessions 2 or more times
- •Child does not complete at least one of the pre-test and post-test data collection tools
Arms & Interventions
Education
Digital privacy literacy training will be provided in 8 sessions over a 12-week period.
Intervention: Education (Behavioral)
Control
No educational intervention
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Introductory Information Form
Time Frame: 1 weeks
The introductory information form, which was created by the researcher by scanning the relevant literature, consists of a total of 9 questions regarding the student's age, gender, mother's education level, father's education level, socioeconomic status, who owns the digital device he/she uses to access the internet, the frequency of use of digital devices, the purpose for which he/she uses the internet, and whether he/she has a social media account.
Autonomy Survey
Time Frame: 1 weeks
The survey was developed to determine the level of autonomy of 4th and 5th grade primary school students. The autonomy survey consists of 2 sections. The first section contains 20 items regarding children's decisional autonomy. The second section contains 19 items regarding children's behavioral autonomy. The survey is a four-point Likert-type scale and is scored as never: 1, sometimes: 2, often: 3, always: 4. There are no reverse-coded items in the survey. All items in the survey are collected according to their sections to measure the relevant autonomy. As the total score obtained from the survey increases, the level of autonomy also increases. Researchers found the Cronbach-Alpha internal consistency coefficient of the survey as .84. In this study, the first section of the autonomy survey, decisional autonomy, was used. Scores between 20 and 80 are obtained from this section.
Privacy Awareness Scale of Primary School Students
Time Frame: 1 weeks
It was developed to determine the level of privacy awareness of primary school 3rd and 4th grade students. The scale consists of 4 factors and 16 items. These factors are; Personal Security, Sharing of Personal Information, Social Media Privacy, Parental Control. The scale is a 3-point Likert type and is scored as disagree: 1, undecided: 2, agree: 3. There are 2 reverse items in the scale (items 7 and 13). The score that can be obtained from the scale varies between 16 and 48 points. The sub-factors and total score in the scale are obtained by adding the item scores.
Secondary Outcomes
- Autonomy survey(12 weeks)
- Privacy Awareness Scale of Primary School Students(12 weeks)
Investigators
Reyhan Yalcın
Principal Investigator
Ataturk University