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Cardiovascular Health and Nursing Interventions in 6th Grade Middle School Children

NCT06812156 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 90

Last updated 2025-05-14

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Summary

Interventions that can improve cardiovascular health behaviors in children are of critical importance for reducing the burden of cardiovascular disease in the future. The research will be conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of nursing interventions aimed at improving heart health in children. The study employs a pre-test post-test control group experimental design. The sample of the study consists of a total of 100 students, with 50 in the experimental group and 50 in the control group. The research will be conducted with students from two middle schools selected through simple random sampling method from Mamak district, Ankara province. Socio-demographic Data Collection Form and Cardiovascular Health Behavior Scale for Children will be used during the data collection process. A 5-week educational plan aimed at improving cardiovascular health behaviors will be implemented for the experimental group, while no intervention will be made for the control group. Research data will be analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) 25.0 program. Continuous variables will be reported using mean (x̅) and standard deviation (SD), while number (n) and percentage (%) will be used for categorical variables.

All tests will consider statistical significance at the level of p \< 0.05. For the study to be conducted, ethical approval will be obtained from the Ankara University Rectorate Ethics Committee, institutional permission will be obtained from the Ankara Provincial Directorate of National Education, and verbal consent from the included students and written consent from their parents will be obtained.

Conditions

  • Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD)
  • Cardiovascular Diseases Risk
  • Health Behavior
  • School Health Services
  • Nursing Care
  • Virtual Reality
  • Students of the 6. Grade
  • Nursing Education

Interventions

OTHER

Cardiovascular Health Education

This intervention aims to promote healthy behavioral changes at both individual and community levels by supporting education with virtual reality technology.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ankara University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
9 Years
Max Age
13 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-11-10
Primary Completion
2024-12-17
Completion
2025-01-10

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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