Animation Supported COVID-19 Education (COVID-19)

The Effect of Animation-Supported Education Based on the Health Promotion Model for Protection From COVID-19 Disease on Primary School Students

Introduction: The COVID-19 epidemic and related mutations, which affect the whole world, continue to increase globally. In particular, this crisis adversely affects school-age children's quality of life.

Method: The study was carried out between February and April 2022 following the experimental research criteria with the pretest-posttest-retest control group. The research population consists of 4th-grade primary school students studying in schools affiliated with the Siirt Directorate of National Education. The sample consists of 148 students studying in the 4th grade at two schools deemed suitable for the conduct of the study. Data were collected using data collection materials, the Descriptive Questionnaire, and the General Child Quality of Life Scale.

Results: The mean age of all students participating in the study was 10.53±2.60, 53% of the students were girls, and 47% were boys. It has been determined that 36.0% of the Students have not received any training on COVID-19 before, 32.4% of them did not take precautions to defend themselves from COVID-19 disease, and it is not possible to protect 48.4% of them from COVID-19 disease even if adequate precautions are taken. It was found that the difference between the pretest, posttest, and retest mean scores of the Students in the experimental group on the quality of life scale was statistically significant (p < 0.05). It was determined that the mean of life quality increased immediately after the training but decreased in the measurements one month later.

Conclusion: Education to be given to school-age children should be developed with animation-supported programs.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: COVID-19 Pandemic
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Animation-Supported Education

Detailed Description

The new type of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), which emerged in China in December 2019, has spread rapidly worldwide. It was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020 (WHO, 2020). COVID-19 poses a significant threat to the entire society. For this, educational institutions that seem to be risky among the measures taken worldwide have been closed (1). For this reason, it has been decided to continue all education activities through distance education from November 20, 2020, until January 4, 2021. Afterward, it was decided to conduct face-to-face education and training activities in certain stages (2,3).

The importance of education and information activities to prevent COVID-19 disease and reduce the spread of the disease is indisputable. Due to the initiation of face-to-face education, informing school-age children about prevention from the epidemic plays a crucial role in making the school environment safe (4). One of the methods that can be used to inform school-age children about COVID-19 is animations created within the scope of play therapy because animations provide psychomotor, cognitive, social, and emotional development of children and give them positive behaviors and habits (5-7). Concordantly, nurses who stay in close and long-term communication with children, as are with all segments of society, have tremendous responsibilities. Providing accessible, accurate, and evidence-based health information about the epidemic is among the accountabilities of nurses (8). Benefiting from theories and models that offer a professional approach to nursing has many benefits, such as increasing the quality of education, guiding practice, and increasing the health level of individuals (9). For this purpose, the health promotion model (10), created by Pender is suitable to be used in nursing studies carried out to protect against COVID-19 disease

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 148
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Turkey
  • Siirt, Turkey, 56100
    • Siirt University

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 8 years to 12 years (CHILD)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Being at school between the study dates
• Volunteering of the students' and parents' willingness to participate in the research

Exclusion Criteria:

• The presence of a communication problem in the participant

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

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

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
EXPERIMENTAL: Experimental; An animation-supported training based on the health promotion model for COVID-19 disease and prevention measures was given to the participants.	Other: Animation-Supported Education; Expert support was received for the design and preparation of animation videos.
NO_INTERVENTION: Control; No intervention was applied to the participants in the control group.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Socio-demographic Questionnaire	This form was developed by the researchers in line with the literature and consists of 10 questions. In the form, there are five questions about the students' socio-demographic characteristics and five queries about their knowledge and perceptions of the COVID-19 disease.	Baseline
Generic Quality of Life Instrument for Children (Kid-KINDL)	The questionnaire consists of 6 subscales; Physical state, psychological well-being, self-worth, family, friend, and school subscales. The scale consists of 30 items in a 5-point Likert type. High scores indicate a healthy quality of life.	Baseline
Generic Quality of Life Instrument for Children (Kid-KINDL)	The questionnaire consists of 6 subscales; Physical state, psychological well-being, self-worth, family, friend, and school subscales. The scale consists of 30 items in a 5-point Likert type. High scores indicate a healthy quality of life.	At the end of the 1st week
Generic Quality of Life Instrument for Children (Kid-KINDL)	The questionnaire consists of 6 subscales; Physical state, psychological well-being, self-worth, family, friend, and school subscales. The scale consists of 30 items in a 5-point Likert type. High scores indicate a healthy quality of life.	At the end of the 4th week

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Siirt University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (ACTUAL): February 1, 2022
• Primary Completion (ACTUAL): April 30, 2022
• Study Completion (ACTUAL): July 30, 2022

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: November 29, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 29, 2022
• First Posted (ACTUAL): December 1, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ACTUAL): December 1, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 29, 2022
• Last Verified: November 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: COVID-19; Animation-Supported Education; School-Age Children; Healthy Life
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Coronavirus Infections; Coronaviridae Infections; Nidovirales Infections; RNA Virus Infections; Virus Diseases; Infections; Respiratory Tract Infections; Respiratory Tract Diseases; Pneumonia, Viral; Pneumonia; Lung Diseases; COVID-19
• Other Study ID Numbers: 2021-SİÜSBF-032

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