Creating Awareness in Midwifery Students Through Training on Good and Green Health Practices and Awareness of Good Health Practices

Summary

In this context, this study aims to increase midwifery students' awareness of good and green health practices and to develop a measurement tool to evaluate their awareness of good health practices. This research is in two stages, the first stage is methodological type, and the second stage will be carried out as a pre-test post-test randomized controlled experimental research between September 2024-2025. In the first stage, the Good Health Practices Awareness Scale will be developed. In the second stage of the study, the Green Culture Scale (pre-test-post-test) will be filled in by the students. The population of this study, which will be carried out in the Midwifery Department of Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Faculty of Health Sciences, will consist of 300 students studying in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th grades of the Midwifery Department of this university. Data of the research; It will be collected with the "Introductory Information Form, Green Culture Scale and Good Health Practices Awareness Scale". Before starting to collect data, an item pool of the Good Health Practices Awareness Scale will be created in line with the literature, the measurement method will be determined and sent to at least ten faculty members who are interested in the subject and experts in the field, their opinions will be taken and scale items will be created in line with their opinions. Then, the purpose of the research will be explained to the students by the researchers and the groups the students belong to will be determined. Before the training, students in all groups will be asked to take the Pretest. Students included in the training group will be trained in good and green health practices in the faculty's conference hall by expert researchers with Conscious Awareness training certificates and the university's green transformation coordinator. Three weeks after the training, all students will take the Green Culture Scale Post-Test. Students in the control group will also receive training at an appropriate time. IBM SPSS Statistics 29 package program will be used for statistical analysis. In evaluating the data obtained as a result of the research, percentage rates, arithmetic mean and standard deviation, t test in dependent and independent groups and Bonferroni analysis will be used to determine where the significance comes from. Results will be evaluated at the 95% confidence interval and significance level of p \< .05.

Conditions

• Midwifery

Interventions

OTHER

Education

Before the training, students in all groups will be provided to take the Pretest. The students included in the training group will be trained on good and green health practices in the conference hall of the Faculty by expert researchers and the green transformation coordinator of the university who have a certificate of Conscious Awareness training. Three weeks after the training, all students will be given the Green Culture Scale Post-Test.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Kocaeli University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Rukiye Demir, Ass. Prof · Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University

• Resmiye Kaya Odabaş, Ass. Prof · Kocaeli University

• Sibel Ocak Aktürk, Ass. Prof · Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University

• Neriman Güdücü, Ass. Prof · Kırklareli University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

30 Years

Sex

FEMALE

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2024-12-31

Primary Completion

2025-03-31

Completion

2025-09-30