Promoting an incLUsive Society Towards Older Adults With Physical Disabilities

Promoting an incLUsive Society Towards Older Adults With Physical Disabilities Through Disability Simulation Education (PLUS)

To improve secondary school students' positive attitudes towards older adults with physical disabilities via a Promoting an incLUsive Society towards older adults with physical disabilities through disability simulation education (PLUS) project.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Disability Physical; Respect; Social Acceptance
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: 3-day PLUS Convention

Detailed Description

A pretest-posttest and qualitative study design will be adopted. 1,000 junior secondary students will be recruited from six secondary schools in Hong Kong by convenience sampling to participate in a 3-day PLUS Convention. Changes in students' attitudes towards older adults with physical disabilities and satisfaction with life, and their satisfaction with the disability simulation experience will be assessed. Semi-structured interviews will be conducted with students, facilitators, teachers, and older adults with physical disabilities to gain further feedback.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 1111
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Hong Kong
  • Hong Kong, Hong Kong
    • Secondary schools

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 12 years to 18 years (Child, Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

1. currently a secondary 1 to secondary 3 student
2. studying in a secondary school in Hong Kong
3. communicable in Cantonese
4. willing to attend all of the activities of the 3-day PLUS Convention

Exclusion Criteria:

1. have a physical or learning disability
2. diagnosed with a severe psychiatric illness

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Intervention / Treatment

Experimental: 3-day PLUS Convention; Participants will participate in a 3-day PLUS Convention, comprising an inclusivity education workshop, service-learning seminar, disability simulation workshop, and two community contact sessions.

Behavioral: 3-day PLUS Convention; Participants will participate in a 3-day PLUS Convention, comprising an inclusivity education workshop, a service-learning seminar, a disability simulation workshop, and two community contact sessions which will consist of a 60-minute interview with an older adult with a physical disability and an outdoor experience. Discussion sessions will be facilitated throughout to consolidate learning.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change in the participants' attitudes towards older adults with physical disabilities	The 47-item Students' Attitudes toward People with a Disability Scale will be used. It was developed locally in the Baseline Survey of Students' Attitudes towards People with a Disability, a study conducted by the Equal Opportunities Commission in Hong Kong. It encompasses four attitude sub-scales, namely social acceptance, behavioural misconceptions, pessimism-hopelessness, and optimism-human rights. Participants will rate their agreement with each item on a 4-point Likert scale (1 = "Strongly agree" - 4 = "Strongly disagree"). The four attitude sub-scale scores will then be converted along a scale between 1-100. A higher score will indicate a more positive attitude towards people with a disability. All sub-scales had Cronbach's Alpha scores ranging from 0.69 to 0.85, which support their respectable reliability.	Change from baseline to immediately after completion of the intervention (2 months)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change in the participants' level of life satisfaction	The 5-item Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) will be adopted. Participants will rate their overall judgement of their life on a 7-point Likert scale (1 = "Strongly disagree" - 7 = "Strongly agree"). The total score ranges from 5 to 35 points, with a higher score indicating a higher satisfaction with life. The SWLS has a Cronbach's Alpha score of 0.87, supporting its internal consistency and reliability.	Change from baseline to immediately after completion of the intervention (2 months)
The participants' level of satisfaction with the disability simulation workshop	The 18-item Satisfaction with Disability Simulation Experience Scale (SDSES) will be used. Participants will rate their extent of agreement with the simulations using a 5-point Likert scale (1 = "Strongly disagree" - 5 = "Strongly agree") to indicate their satisfaction with them. A higher score will indicate higher satisfaction with the simulation experience. The survey will have one open-ended question asking students to provide additional comments about their simulation experience. The scale's internal consistency reliability is supported as its whole Cronbach's coefficient values ranged from 0.70 to 0.88.	Immediately after completion of the disability simulation workshop (within 1 day)

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Suzanne Lo, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): January 1, 2022
• Primary Completion (Actual): December 31, 2023
• Study Completion (Actual): March 31, 2024

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 21, 2021
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 28, 2021
• First Posted (Actual): August 6, 2021

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimated): April 15, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 11, 2024
• Last Verified: April 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Physical disability; Education; Social inclusion; Disability simulation
• Other Study ID Numbers: PLUS

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: YES
• IPD Plan Description: The datasets used and/or analysed during the current study will be available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
• IPD Sharing Time Frame: The datasets used and/or analysed during the current study will be available from the corresponding author, on reasonable request, for six years upon completion of the study
• IPD Sharing Access Criteria: The datasets used and/or analysed during the current study will be available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
• IPD Sharing Supporting Information Type: STUDY_PROTOCOL; ICF

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No