Microplastica Pollution Awareness Level of Students

NCT ID: NCT06127862

Last Updated: 2023-11-15

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 90 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2022-12-15
• Study Completion Date: 2023-06-28

Brief Summary

This study aims to raise awareness among individuals about plastic and microplastica pollution, reduce plastic consumption, reduce the amount of plastic waste that grows cumulatively every year, and contribute to the development of a livable environment.

Detailed Description

The aim of this research is to investigate the effect of environmental health education given at the 9th-grade level on the microplastica pollution awareness level of students.

This pretest-posttest experimental study with a randomized control group was conducted between 2022 and 2023 in three high schools in a province in eastern Turkey. The sample of the study consisted of 90 ninth-grade students (experimental group: 45, control group: 45), and the sample magnitude was determined by power analysis. Tools such as the "Personal Information Form" and "Microplastica Pollution Awareness Scale (MPAS)" were used to collect data. Training was given to the experimental group as a nursing intervention in a total of 4 sessions at 15-day intervals. No intervention was applied to the individuals in the control group. In the data evaluation process, percentage distribution, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, chi-square test, correlation and regression analyses were used.

While no significant difference was observed in the MPAS total score in the control group according to the pre-test and post-test mean scores, a significant difference was observed in the MPAS total score in the experimental group (p≤0.05). When the posttest mean scores of the experimental and control groups were examined, it was observed that the posttest mean scores of the experimental group were higher than the posttest mean scores of the control group and there was a statistically significant difference (p≤0.05).

It was observed that the microplastica pollution awareness level of the experimental group students who received environmental health training increased significantly.

Conditions

Environmental-Pollution-Related Condition

Study Design

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

Study Groups

Education group

The forms used in the study were collected by the researcher through face-to-face interviews in seminar halls in schools. First of all, students in the experimental group were educated about environmental health and microplastica, and nursing interventions were made. The training was organized for twenty minutes in each session, with a total of four sessions at two-week intervals. Personal Information Form and Microplastica Pollution Awareness Scale (MPAS) were filled out as a pre-test in the seminar halls of the schools under the supervision of the researcher.

Group Type: OTHER

Education group

Intervention Type: OTHER

Students in the experimental group were educated about environmental health and microplastica, and nursing interventions were made. The training was organized for twenty minutes in each session, with a total of four sessions at two-week intervals.

Control group

Personal information form and Microplastica Pollution Awareness Scale (MPAS)" were applied to the students in the control group as a pre-test. No training was given to the control group. Fifteen days after the end of the fourth training of the intervention group, the MPAS was applied to the control group as a post-test, and data collection was terminated. After the post-test was administered to the groups, training materials were also given to individuals from the control group who requested them.

Group Type: OTHER

No training was given

Intervention Type: OTHER

No training was given

Interventions

Education group

Students in the experimental group were educated about environmental health and microplastica, and nursing interventions were made. The training was organized for twenty minutes in each session, with a total of four sessions at two-week intervals.

Intervention Type: OTHER

No training was given

No training was given

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• age group of 13-15 years,
• 9th-grade students,
• without any intellectual disability,
• with parental consent.

Exclusion Criteria

• Previous or current participation in an MPAS training,
• Inability to obtain parental consent.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 13 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 15 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Firat University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

FATOŞ UNCU

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

FATOŞ UNCU, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Firat University

Locations

Firat University

Elâzığ, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Other Identifiers

FU-PHN-FU-01

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id