The Effect of Virtual Reality Use on Disaster Literacy, Disaster Readiness and Disaster Resilience
NCT Number: NCT06565962
Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
Phases: NA
Conditions: Public Health Nursing
Interventions: OTHER: Educaiton group|OTHER: control group
Sponsor: FATOŞ UNCU
Sex: ALL
Age: ADULT, OLDER_ADULT
Enrollment: 64
Study Design: Allocation: RANDOMIZED|Intervention Model: PARALLEL|Masking: DOUBLE (PARTICIPANT, INVESTIGATOR)|Primary Purpose: PREVENTION
Start Date: 2024-08-15
Completion Date: 2025-02-15

Summary:
Pre-disaster mitigation and preparedness activities are essential to reduce vulnerability in a community and protect people when disasters occur. Although disaster preparedness and protective behaviours have attracted the attention of scholars worldwide, there is no significant study on the preparedness, disaster literacy and disaster resilience of rural households. The aim of this study is to examine the effect of virtual reality use on disaster literacy, disaster preparedness and individual disaster resilience in adults living in rural areas.

Primary Outcome Measures: Disaster literacy scale, It is a self-report scale developed by Çalışkan and Üner (2023) to evaluate AFOY in people aged 18-60 years. The scale consists of 61 items and four sub-dimensions: harm reduction, preparation, intervention and improvement. Likert-type scale is graded from 1=very difficult to 5=very easy. There are no reverse items in the scale. The total score that can be obtained from the scale is between 61-305. The high score obtained from the scale shows that the disaster literacy level of individuals is high. In the scale, 0 indicates the lowest AFOY and 50 indicates the highest AFOY. The scale is divided into criteria as 0-\<30 points inadequate AFOY, 30-\<36 points limited AFOY, 36-\<42 points adequate AFOY and 42-50 points excellent AFOY: Scores= (0-\<30): inadequate AFOY; (30-\<36): limited AFOY; (36-\<42): adequate AFOY; (42-50): excellent AFOY. Cronbach's alpha coefficient for internal consistency of the whole scale is α=0.954., 3 month|Disaster preparedness scale, It was developed by Şentuna and Çakı to determine the preparedness of individuals for disasters. The scale consists of a measurement tool consisting of 13 items and 4 dimensions. The scale consists of four (4) sub-dimensions as 'disaster physical protection', 'disaster planning', 'disaster assistance' and 'disaster warning systems'. There are five items in the 'disaster physical protection' sub-dimension, three items in the 'disaster planning' sub-dimension, three items in the 'disaster relief' sub-dimension and two items in the 'disaster warning systems' sub-dimension. The items in the scale are in 4-point Likert format as '1-Strongly No', '2-No', '3-Yes', '4-Strongly Yes'. The minimum score that can be obtained from the scale is 13 and the maximum score is 52. As the score obtained from the scale increases, the level of disaster preparedness increases. Cronbach Alpa coefficient calculated for the whole scale is 0,82., 3 month|Disaster Resilience Scale, The scale developed by Şen (2022) consists of 20 items and four sub-dimensions. These sub-dimensions are coping with experience, coping with knowledge, coping with common coping and emotional coping. The scale is Likert 5 type and the questions are scored between 1: strongly disagree and 5: strongly agree. Three items in the scale are reverse coded. The higher the score, the higher the disaster resilience is considered to be, 3 month