Promoting an incLUsive Society Towards Older Adults With Physical Disabilities

NCT ID: NCT04993183

Last Updated: 2024-04-15

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 1111 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2022-01-01
• Study Completion Date: 2024-03-31

Brief Summary

To improve secondary school students' positive attitudes towards older adults with physical disabilities via a Promoting an incLUsive Society towards older adults with physical disabilities through disability simulation education (PLUS) project.

Detailed Description

A pretest-posttest and qualitative study design will be adopted. 1,000 junior secondary students will be recruited from six secondary schools in Hong Kong by convenience sampling to participate in a 3-day PLUS Convention. Changes in students' attitudes towards older adults with physical disabilities and satisfaction with life, and their satisfaction with the disability simulation experience will be assessed. Semi-structured interviews will be conducted with students, facilitators, teachers, and older adults with physical disabilities to gain further feedback.

Conditions

Disability Physical; Social Acceptance; Respect

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: OTHER
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

3-day PLUS Convention

Participants will participate in a 3-day PLUS Convention, comprising an inclusivity education workshop, service-learning seminar, disability simulation workshop, and two community contact sessions.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

3-day PLUS Convention

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Participants will participate in a 3-day PLUS Convention, comprising an inclusivity education workshop, a service-learning seminar, a disability simulation workshop, and two community contact sessions which will consist of a 60-minute interview with an older adult with a physical disability and an outdoor experience. Discussion sessions will be facilitated throughout to consolidate learning.

Interventions

3-day PLUS Convention

Participants will participate in a 3-day PLUS Convention, comprising an inclusivity education workshop, a service-learning seminar, a disability simulation workshop, and two community contact sessions which will consist of a 60-minute interview with an older adult with a physical disability and an outdoor experience. Discussion sessions will be facilitated throughout to consolidate learning.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

1. currently a secondary 1 to secondary 3 student

2. studying in a secondary school in Hong Kong

3. communicable in Cantonese

4. willing to attend all of the activities of the 3-day PLUS Convention

Exclusion Criteria

1. have a physical or learning disability

2. diagnosed with a severe psychiatric illness

• Minimum Eligible Age: 12 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Chinese University of Hong Kong

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Suzanne HS Lo

Assistant Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Suzanne Lo

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Locations

Secondary Schools

Hong Kong, , Hong Kong

Countries

Hong Kong

Other Identifiers

PLUS

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id