Animation Supported COVID-19 Education

NCT ID: NCT05633485

Last Updated: 2022-12-01

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 148 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2022-02-01
• Study Completion Date: 2022-07-30

Brief Summary

Introduction: The COVID-19 epidemic and related mutations, which affect the whole world, continue to increase globally. In particular, this crisis adversely affects school-age children's quality of life.

Method: The study was carried out between February and April 2022 following the experimental research criteria with the pretest-posttest-retest control group. The research population consists of 4th-grade primary school students studying in schools affiliated with the Siirt Directorate of National Education. The sample consists of 148 students studying in the 4th grade at two schools deemed suitable for the conduct of the study. Data were collected using data collection materials, the Descriptive Questionnaire, and the General Child Quality of Life Scale.

Results: The mean age of all students participating in the study was 10.53±2.60, 53% of the students were girls, and 47% were boys. It has been determined that 36.0% of the Students have not received any training on COVID-19 before, 32.4% of them did not take precautions to defend themselves from COVID-19 disease, and it is not possible to protect 48.4% of them from COVID-19 disease even if adequate precautions are taken. It was found that the difference between the pretest, posttest, and retest mean scores of the Students in the experimental group on the quality of life scale was statistically significant (p < 0.05). It was determined that the mean of life quality increased immediately after the training but decreased in the measurements one month later.

Conclusion: Education to be given to school-age children should be developed with animation-supported programs.

Detailed Description

The new type of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), which emerged in China in December 2019, has spread rapidly worldwide. It was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020 (WHO, 2020). COVID-19 poses a significant threat to the entire society. For this, educational institutions that seem to be risky among the measures taken worldwide have been closed (1). For this reason, it has been decided to continue all education activities through distance education from November 20, 2020, until January 4, 2021. Afterward, it was decided to conduct face-to-face education and training activities in certain stages (2,3).

The importance of education and information activities to prevent COVID-19 disease and reduce the spread of the disease is indisputable. Due to the initiation of face-to-face education, informing school-age children about prevention from the epidemic plays a crucial role in making the school environment safe (4). One of the methods that can be used to inform school-age children about COVID-19 is animations created within the scope of play therapy because animations provide psychomotor, cognitive, social, and emotional development of children and give them positive behaviors and habits (5-7). Concordantly, nurses who stay in close and long-term communication with children, as are with all segments of society, have tremendous responsibilities. Providing accessible, accurate, and evidence-based health information about the epidemic is among the accountabilities of nurses (8). Benefiting from theories and models that offer a professional approach to nursing has many benefits, such as increasing the quality of education, guiding practice, and increasing the health level of individuals (9). For this purpose, the health promotion model (10), created by Pender is suitable to be used in nursing studies carried out to protect against COVID-19 disease

Conditions

COVID-19 Pandemic

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: DOUBLE

Study Groups

Experimental

An animation-supported training based on the health promotion model for COVID-19 disease and prevention measures was given to the participants.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Animation-Supported Education

Intervention Type: OTHER

Expert support was received for the design and preparation of animation videos.

Control

No intervention was applied to the participants in the control group.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Animation-Supported Education

Expert support was received for the design and preparation of animation videos.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Being at school between the study dates
• Volunteering of the students' and parents' willingness to participate in the research

Exclusion Criteria

• The presence of a communication problem in the participant

• Minimum Eligible Age: 8 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 12 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Siirt University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Sidar Gül

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Siirt University

Siirt, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Other Identifiers

2021-SİÜSBF-032

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id