Effectiveness of the Education Support Program Provided Via Text Message

EFFECTIVENESS of the EDUCATION SUPPORT PROGRAM VIA TEXT MESSAGE

Information will be provided to first year midwifery students via text message within the scope of the 'Basic Principles and Practice in Midwifery Education' support programme. This information is planned to last approximately 4 weeks. The study will be conducted to evaluate the effect of the information provided on the knowledge levels of the students.

Study Overview

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Conditions: Midwifery Students
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Education Support Programme via Text Message

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 60
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Serkan Çalışmaz Secretary, Bachelor' s Degree; Phone Number: +905317340258; Email: sserkancalismaz@gmail.com

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• In 2023-2024 Spring Term, with the success of the Basic Principles and Practices Course in Midwifery to have completed the programme,
• Having a mobile phone,
• Accepting to participate in the research is one of the inclusion criteria of this studyc

Exclusion Criteria:

• Students who incompletely completed the post-test and first test scales will be excluded from the study.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Experimental Group; All students to be included in the study will be pre-tested through Google Form's. After the pre-test, the students in the experimental group will be sent images created by the researchers via text message for 4 weeks (22 days) and consisting of the information given in the Basic Principles and Practices in Midwifery Course. Each visual will contain one piece of information. The researchers will send 6 visuals to the students in the experimental group via text message every day for 4 weeks, except Saturdays and Sundays. The post-test will be applied immediately after the end of the implementation process. The messages will be short and contain a single piece of information.	Behavioral: Education Support Programme via Text Message; All students to be included in the study will be pre-tested via Google Form's. After the pre-test, the students in the experimental group will be sent images created by the researchers via text message for 4 weeks (22 days) and consisting of the information given in the Basic Principles and Practices in Midwifery Course. Each visual will contain one piece of information. The researchers will send 6 visuals to the students in the experimental group via text message every day for 4 weeks, except Saturdays and Sundays. The post-test will be applied immediately after the end of the implementation process. The messages will be short and contain a single piece of information.
No Intervention: Control Group; No treatment will be carried out.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Knowledge Measurement Questionnaire	The knowledge measurement questionnaire prepared by the researchers according to the curriculum of the related course consists of 133 questions in total. There are 'Yes' or 'No' choices in the questions. Out of 33 questions, those who give the correct answer will be scored as 1 and those who give the wrong answer will be scored as 0. The knowledge measurement questionnaire will be applied in pre-test and post-test. The pre-test will be applied just before the start of the study and the post-test will be applied just after the end of the implementation process.	Before and immediately after education

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Marmara University

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Huang, C. S. J., Yang, S. J. H., Chiang, T. H. C., & Su, A. Y. S. (2016). Effects of Situated Mobile Learning Approach on Learning Motivation and Performance of EFL Students. Educational Technology & Society, (2016), 19 (1), 263-276.)
• Hardini, M. G., Khaizure, T., & Godwin, G. (2024). Exploring the Effectiveness of E-Learning in Fostering Innovation and Creative Entrepreneurship in Higher Education. Startupreneur Business Digital (SABDA Journal), 3(1), 34-42. https://doi.org/10.33050/sabda.v3i1.441
• Kavruk Y. (2018). Uzaktan Öğrenenlerin Kısa Mesaj ile Eğitsel Destek Sağlanmasına Yönelik Memnuniyetleri ve Öğrenme Düzeyleri. Anadolu Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, Yüksek Lisans Tezi. Eskişehir. 2018.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Estimated): November 30, 2024
• Primary Completion (Estimated): December 30, 2024
• Study Completion (Estimated): December 30, 2024

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: October 19, 2024
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 19, 2024
• First Posted (Actual): October 22, 2024

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): October 22, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 19, 2024
• Last Verified: October 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: MarmaraUEBE2

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
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No