Clinical trial NCT05572840: Wear Your Mask, Wash Your Hands, Don't Get COVID-19
Official title: Wear Your Mask, Wash Your Hands, Don't Get COVID-19
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Coronavirus
Child, Only
Lead sponsor: Bartın Unıversity
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey
First posted: 2022-10-10
Enrollment: 273
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 11
Maximum age (years): 14
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: The aim of this project is to determine the effect of training given to children aged 11-14 on hand hygiene and mask use. In line with this general purpose, the hypotheses of the research are as follows:

H0= Education given to children aged 11-14 on hand hygiene and mask use has no effect on children's hand hygiene and mask use behaviors.

H1= With the education given to children aged 11-14 on hand hygiene and mask use, children will exhibit more correct hand hygiene and mask use behaviors.

Detailed description: The universe of the research will consist of 273 secondary school students between the ages of 11-14 according to the education and training of Bartın Ertuğrul Gazi Secondary School. The children's inclusion criteria are as follows:

* Being between the ages of 11-14,
* Being a student of Bartın Ertuğrul Gazi Secondary School,
* The child and his parents agree to participate in the project,
* The child's speech and visual impairment do not have any handicap that would force or hinder communication.

Intervention: Once enrolled and consent is documented, eligible subjects will participate in the study for approximately three months. Participants will be expected to attend 2 training sessions and 2 activities (wearing masks and hygienic hand washing), each is up to one hour in length. Follow-up will be made at the beginning of the training, right after the last training. Data analysis will begin once all trainings and activities have been completed. Investigators anticipate completing the study, including primary analyses, within six months from the date recruitment begins.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Being between the ages of 11-14,
* Being a student of Bartın Ertuğrul Gazi Secondary School,
* The child and his parents agree to participate in the project,
* The child's speech and visual impairment do not have any handicap that would force or hinder communication.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Not to be between the ages of 11-14,
* Not being a student of Bartın Ertuğrul Gazi Secondary School,
* The child and his parents do not agree to participate in the project,
* The child's speech and vision impairment, or any disability that would force or hinder communication.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change of the mean scores obtained by the children in the intervention group from the "Hand Hygiene Behavior Form" before and after the trainings and activities
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: Change of the mean scores obtained by the children in the intervention group from the "Behavior Form for Using Masks" before and after the trainings and activities
timeFrame: 6 months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Bartın
country: Turkey
facility: Bartin Ertugrul Gazi Secondary School
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