Clinical trial NCT06165263: The Effect of a Mobile Earthquake Education Application
Official title: The Effect of the Mobile Earthquake Education Application Developed for High School Students on Students' Knowledge Levels About Earthquakes
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Students
Earthquake
Education
Keywords: Disaster management
disaster education
mobile application
risk management
earthquake
Lead sponsor: Dokuz Eylul University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2023-12-11
Enrollment: 160
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 13
Maximum age (years): 16
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: This research aims to experimentally explore the effect of the mobile earthquake education application developed for high school students on the earthquake knowledge level and earthquake risk perception of high school students.

Detailed description: Earthquake is the type of natural hazard with the highest mortality in the world and in Turkey. The majority of Turkey\&#39;s population lives under the threat of earthquakes.It is necessary to adopt a risk management approach against earthquake danger and to raise conscious individuals.Thanks to earthquake education activities for students, earthquake awareness can be spread to students\&#39; peers, families and teachers. In this way, the society can be resistant to the earthquake hazard.It is recommended that a combination of visual, audio and interactive tools be preferred and technology be used in earthquake education activities.In earthquake education activities, the use of mobile learning method has advantages such as eliminating time and space limitations, increasing equality of opportunity in education, supporting individualized learning and providing instant feedback.

This project will be carried out to examine the effect of the mobile earthquake education application developed for high school students on the students\&#39; level of knowledge about earthquakes. The research will be conducted in two different schools in Konya in the 2023-2024 academic year.The population of the research is 9th grade students in both schools. The sample size was calculated with the Open epi and t was decided to 160 students, 80 experimental and 80 control. In order to prevent interaction between students, one of the schools involved in the research will be the experimental group and the other will be the control group. Groups will be determined with the lottery method.Three 9th grade students from each school will be included in the research. Three classes to be taken into groups in schools will be selected by simple random sampling method. The researcher will collect the pre-tests to all students who meet the research criteria and agree to participate in the study. The researcher will present 2 hours of basic earthquake education to both the experimental and control groups. The students in the experimental group will be registered on the mobile earthquake education. The students in the experimental group will use "mobile earthquake education" for 4 weeks. After 4 weeks, a posttest will be administered to all students in the experimental and control groups. To evaluate the permanence of the mobile earthquake education initiative, a post-test will be administered to participants 8 weeks after the application begins. As data collection form, sociodemographic characteristics survey form, earthquake risk perception scale, earthquake knowledge level survey will be used. The results will be presented with frequency distributions and mean±standard deviation. In the analysis, t test or Mann Whitney U Analysis will be used in independent groups and Variance Analysis or Friedman Analysis of Variance will be used in dependent groups.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Being a 9th grade student in high school
* The student or parent must have an Android phone
* The student has internet access

Exclusion Criteria:

• Student's participation in any earthquake-related education

Primary outcomes:
measure: Level of knowledge about earthquakes
timeFrame: Baseline, 4 weeks after intervention and 8 weeks after intervention .
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Earthquake risk perception
timeFrame: Baseline, 4 weeks after intervention and 8 weeks after intervention .
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: İzmir
country: Turkey
facility: Dokuz Eylul University
Study officials:
affiliation: Dokuz Eylul University
name: Kamil Koçak, PhD Student
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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