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

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Nursing Student

Age range

18 year–30 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Muş Alparslan University

Muş, Turkey (Türkiye)

About this study

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.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

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

Inclusion criteria

volunteering to participate in research
have verbal communication skills

Exclusion criteria

Treatment and study plan

global warming-climate change based education

Behavioral

The experimental group will be given 8 weeks of global warming-climate change based training. No intervention will be applied to the control group.

Primary outcomes

change of environmental attitude scale

Time frame: baseline 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.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Muş Alparslan University

Other

Registry information

Important dates

Study start: 2023
Primary completion: 2024
Study completion: 2024
First posted: Dec 13, 2023
Registry last updated: May 30, 2024

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