Animation Supported COVID-19 Education
Condition: COVID-19 Pandemic
MeSH terms: COVID-19
Study type: Interventional

Summary: 
      Introduction: The COVID-19 epidemic and related mutations, which affect the whole world,
      continue to increase globally. In particular, this crisis adversely affects school-age
      children's quality of life.

      Method: The study was carried out between February and April 2022 following the experimental
      research criteria with the pretest-posttest-retest control group. The research population
      consists of 4th-grade primary school students studying in schools affiliated with the Siirt
      Directorate of National Education. The sample consists of 148 students studying in the 4th
      grade at two schools deemed suitable for the conduct of the study. Data were collected using
      data collection materials, the Descriptive Questionnaire, and the General Child Quality of
      Life Scale.

      Results: The mean age of all students participating in the study was 10.53±2.60, 53% of the
      students were girls, and 47% were boys. It has been determined that 36.0% of the Students
      have not received any training on COVID-19 before, 32.4% of them did not take precautions to
      defend themselves from COVID-19 disease, and it is not possible to protect 48.4% of them from
      COVID-19 disease even if adequate precautions are taken. It was found that the difference
      between the pretest, posttest, and retest mean scores of the Students in the experimental
      group on the quality of life scale was statistically significant (p < 0.05). It was
      determined that the mean of life quality increased immediately after the training but
      decreased in the measurements one month later.

      Conclusion: Education to be given to school-age children should be developed with
      animation-supported programs.
    

Detailed description: 
      The new type of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), which emerged in China in December 2019, has
      spread rapidly worldwide. It was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization
      on March 11, 2020 (WHO, 2020). COVID-19 poses a significant threat to the entire society. For
      this, educational institutions that seem to be risky among the measures taken worldwide have
      been closed (1). For this reason, it has been decided to continue all education activities
      through distance education from November 20, 2020, until January 4, 2021. Afterward, it was
      decided to conduct face-to-face education and training activities in certain stages (2,3).

      The importance of education and information activities to prevent COVID-19 disease and reduce
      the spread of the disease is indisputable. Due to the initiation of face-to-face education,
      informing school-age children about prevention from the epidemic plays a crucial role in
      making the school environment safe (4). One of the methods that can be used to inform
      school-age children about COVID-19 is animations created within the scope of play therapy
      because animations provide psychomotor, cognitive, social, and emotional development of
      children and give them positive behaviors and habits (5-7). Concordantly, nurses who stay in
      close and long-term communication with children, as are with all segments of society, have
      tremendous responsibilities. Providing accessible, accurate, and evidence-based health
      information about the epidemic is among the accountabilities of nurses (8). Benefiting from
      theories and models that offer a professional approach to nursing has many benefits, such as
      increasing the quality of education, guiding practice, and increasing the health level of
      individuals (9). For this purpose, the health promotion model (10), created by Pender is
      suitable to be used in nursing studies carried out to protect against COVID-19 disease
    

Intervention name(s): Animation-Supported Education
Intervention type(s): Other
Intervention description(s): Expert support was received for the design and preparation of animation videos.
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double (Participant, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary purpose: Prevention
Keywords: Animation-Supported Education; COVID-19; School-Age Children; Healthy Life