Migrant Health Promotion Program for University Students

August 27, 2019 updated by: Tuba Demirel, Selçuk University

Developing Nursing Students Attitudes Towards Refugees Based on Contact Hypothesis: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

The aim of the study is to determine effect of program about developing nursing students' attitudes towards refugees based on contact hypothesis on Xenophobia, Attitude towards Refugees and Intercultural Sensitivity.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

This Randomized Controlled Trials has been conducted with Bachelor's degree in nursing. Ninety students selected and randomly assigned to the intervention and control group as 45 students. Intervention group received a program about developing refugees health for 12 weeks. The content of this program consists of education and practices for refugees health.

Primary Outcome Measure: Xenophobia, Attitude towards Refugees and Intercultural Sensitivity Scale.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

90

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • Turkey
      • Konya, Turkey
        • Selcuk University
    • Selcuklu
      • Konya, Selcuklu, Turkey, 42250
        • Selcuk University
      • Konya, Selcuklu, Turkey
        • Selcuk University

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • ADULT
  • OLDER_ADULT
  • CHILD

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • The university students in the fourth year of nursing education

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Refugees or immigrants students

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: PREVENTION
  • Allocation: RANDOMIZED
  • Interventional Model: PARALLEL
  • Masking: SINGLE

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
EXPERIMENTAL: Intervention Group
Intervention contain education and application about refugees health.
Other: To develop nursing students' attitudes towards refugees program which based on contact hypothesis.
In the first three weeks, education were given to the intervention group about refugees. Students watched a film on the theme of migration. After than the students contacted refugees in three different centers ( an immigrant health center, a school and a civil Society Organization) each of them for a total of nine weeks and two days a week.
NO_INTERVENTION: Control Group
Students of control group performed routine public health nursing practices.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Xenophobia,
Time Frame: 12 weeks
Xenophobia Scale: The scale consists of 11 items and a single factor structure. The lowest score that can be obtained from Likert type scale (6 options) is 14 and the highest score is 84; The higher the score, the higher the risk of xenophobia.
12 weeks
Attitude towards Refugees
Time Frame: 12 weeks
Attitude towards Refugees Scale: The scale is a likert type (5 options) and has 5 sub-dimensions
12 weeks
Intercultural Sensitivity
Time Frame: 12 weeks
Intercultural Sensitivity Scale: The scale consists of 24 items and is a five-point likert type. The lowest total score that can be obtained from the scale is 24 and the highest total score is 120. The increase in the total score obtained from the scale indicates that the level of cultural sensitivity increased.
12 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Selçuk University

Investigators

  • Study Director: Belgin Akin, Professor, Selcuk University

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (ACTUAL)

March 4, 2019

Primary Completion (ACTUAL)

May 31, 2019

Study Completion (ACTUAL)

August 10, 2019

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

August 23, 2019

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

August 23, 2019

First Posted (ACTUAL)

August 28, 2019

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (ACTUAL)

August 28, 2019

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

August 27, 2019

Last Verified

August 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 2019/101

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

This information was retrieved directly from the website clinicaltrials.gov without any changes. If you have any requests to change, remove or update your study details, please contact register@clinicaltrials.gov. As soon as a change is implemented on clinicaltrials.gov, this will be updated automatically on our website as well.

Clinical Trials on Refugees

Search Similar Trials

Sponsors and Collaborators

Medical Conditions

Drug Interventions

CROs by country

CROs in Kosovo

Conditions

Rare Diseases

Drug Interventions

Dietary Supplements

Sponsor/Collaborators

Locations

3
Subscribe