The Effect of Environmental Health Education on Microplastica Pollution Awareness
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 90
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Microplastica Pollution Awareness Scale
研究概览
简要总结
This study aims to raise awareness among individuals about plastic and microplastica pollution, reduce plastic consumption, reduce the amount of plastic waste that grows cumulatively every year, and contribute to the development of a livable environment.
详细描述
The aim of this research is to investigate the effect of environmental health education given at the 9th-grade level on the microplastica pollution awareness level of students.
This pretest-posttest experimental study with a randomized control group was conducted between 2022 and 2023 in three high schools in a province in eastern Turkey. The sample of the study consisted of 90 ninth-grade students (experimental group: 45, control group: 45), and the sample magnitude was determined by power analysis. Tools such as the "Personal Information Form" and "Microplastica Pollution Awareness Scale (MPAS)" were used to collect data. Training was given to the experimental group as a nursing intervention in a total of 4 sessions at 15-day intervals. No intervention was applied to the individuals in the control group. In the data evaluation process, percentage distribution, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, chi-square test, correlation and regression analyses were used.
While no significant difference was observed in the MPAS total score in the control group according to the pre-test and post-test mean scores, a significant difference was observed in the MPAS total score in the experimental group (p≤0.05). When the posttest mean scores of the experimental and control groups were examined, it was observed that the posttest mean scores of the experimental group were higher than the posttest mean scores of the control group and there was a statistically significant difference (p≤0.05).
It was observed that the microplastica pollution awareness level of the experimental group students who received environmental health training increased significantly.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- Single (Participant)
盲法说明
Participants were assigned to the groups by a single-blind design. For allocation, intervention and control groups were coded as "A" and "B". Which letter would be the intervention or control group was determined by the coin toss method before the allocation.
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 13 Years 至 15 Years（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •age group of 13-15 years,
- •9th-grade students,
- •without any intellectual disability,
- •with parental consent.
排除标准
- •Previous or current participation in an MPAS training,
- •Inability to obtain parental consent.
结局指标
主要结局
Microplastica Pollution Awareness Scale
时间窗: 3 MONTHS
MPAS has a 3-factor structure. It consists of 5 negative and 9 positive items. The questions were prepared to measure the level of awareness of microplastica pollution. The Likert scale consists of 1 point= "no", 2 points= "not sure" and 3 points= "yes" options. The highest score that can be obtained from the scale is 42 points. The increase in the score obtained from the scale is consistent with the participant's awareness of microplastica pollution
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
FATOŞ UNCU
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Firat University