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

Muş Alparlan University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Nursing Student

Treatments: Behavioral: global warming-climate change based education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06169189

05.10.23/8-19

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 110 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 30 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• volunteering to participate in research
• have verbal communication skills

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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110 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental intervention group

Active Comparator group

Description:

The experimental group will be given 8-week global warming-climate change based training

Treatment:

Behavioral: global warming-climate change based education

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

The initiative will not be implemented.