The Effect of a Mobile Earthquake Education Application

NCT ID: NCT06165263

Last Updated: 2025-04-01

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 160 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2023-12-11
• Study Completion Date: 2024-09-08

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'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' 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' 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.

Conditions

Students; Earthquake; Education

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NON_RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: OTHER
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Control Group

The researcher will present 2 hours of basic earthquake education to control group.

The control group will not receive any other intervention. Control group will consist of 80 students.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Mobile earthquake education

The researcher will present 2 hours of basic earthquake education to experimental group.

The students in the experimental group will use "mobile earthquake education" for 4 weeks.

İnterventional group will consist of 80 students.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Mobile earthquake education

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The mobile earthquake education application was developed to increase high school students\' knowledge about earthquakes through videos, activities or games. In the mobile earthquake education application, there are 4 modules that provide general information about the earthquake and what to do before, during and after the earthquake.

Interventions

Mobile earthquake education

The mobile earthquake education application was developed to increase high school students\' knowledge about earthquakes through videos, activities or games. In the mobile earthquake education application, there are 4 modules that provide general information about the earthquake and what to do before, during and after the earthquake.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

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

• Minimum Eligible Age: 13 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 16 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Dokuz Eylul University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Kamil Kocak

PhD Student, Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Kamil Koçak, PhD Student

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Dokuz Eylul University

Locations

Dokuz Eylul University

Izmir, İzmir, Turkey (Türkiye)

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Other Identifiers

TSA-2023-3231

Identifier Type: OTHER_GRANT

Identifier Source: secondary_id

7586-GOA, 2022/35-19

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id