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

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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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.

Detailed Description
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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.

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

Conditions
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Nursing Student

Intervention / Treatment
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* Behavioral: global warming-climate change based education


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: volunteering to participate in research have verbal communication skills Exclusion Criteria: -

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years
Maximum Age: 30 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Other
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Active Comparator: Experimental intervention group<br>The experimental group will be given 8-week global warming-climate change based training | Behavioral: global warming-climate change based education<br>* The experimental group will be given 8 weeks of global warming-climate change based training. No intervention will be applied to the control group.<br>|
| No Intervention: Control Group<br>The initiative will not be implemented. | |

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| change of environmental attitude scale | 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. | baseline to 2 months |