Migrant Health Promotion Program for University Students

The aim of the study is to determine effect of program about developing nursing students' attitudes towards refugees based on contact hypothesis on Xenophobia, Attitude towards Refugees and Intercultural Sensitivity.

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Key information

Conditions

Refugees Behavior

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Selcuk University, Konya, Selcuklu, Turkey (Türkiye)

About this study

This Randomized Controlled Trials has been conducted with Bachelor's degree in nursing. Ninety students selected and randomly assigned to the intervention and control group as 45 students. Intervention group received a program about developing refugees health for 12 weeks. The content of this program consists of education and practices for refugees health.

Primary Outcome Measure: Xenophobia, Attitude towards Refugees and Intercultural Sensitivity Scale.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

The university students in the fourth year of nursing education

Exclusion criteria

Refugees or immigrants students

Treatment and study plan

To develop nursing students' attitudes towards refugees program which based on contact hypothesis.

Other

In the first three weeks, education were given to the intervention group about refugees. Students watched a film on the theme of migration. After than the students contacted refugees in three different centers ( an immigrant health center, a school and a civil Society Organization) each of them for a total of nine weeks and two days a week.

Primary outcomes

Xenophobia,

Time frame: 12 weeks

Xenophobia Scale: The scale consists of 11 items and a single factor structure. The lowest score that can be obtained from Likert type scale (6 options) is 14 and the highest score is 84; The higher the score, the higher the risk of xenophobia.
Attitude towards Refugees

Time frame: 12 weeks

Attitude towards Refugees Scale: The scale is a likert type (5 options) and has 5 sub-dimensions
Intercultural Sensitivity

Time frame: 12 weeks

Intercultural Sensitivity Scale: The scale consists of 24 items and is a five-point likert type. The lowest total score that can be obtained from the scale is 24 and the highest total score is 120. The increase in the total score obtained from the scale indicates that the level of cultural sensitivity increased.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Selcuk University

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Developing Nursing Students Attitudes Towards Refugees Based on Contact Hypothesis: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Important dates

Study start: 2019
Primary completion: 2019
Study completion: 2019
First posted: Aug 28, 2019
Registry last updated: Aug 28, 2019

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