The Effect of Education Programme on School Age Children's Attitudes Towards Children With Special Needs

NCT06163521 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: SKaya_001
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 36
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

As individuals with special needs take more roles in social life and become more visible, the importance of social acceptance of individuals with special needs has increased.Especially being accepted by their peers with normal development and developing as a part of the society will reduce the burden of care in the society and enable children with special needs to lead a life worthy of human dignity.With this study, it is aimed to support children with normal development to form positive attitudes with awareness training. Qualitative and quantitative data will be used together and the attitude before and after the training will be examined descriptively.

Conditions

Attitude

Keywords

Special needs; Attitude; School age children

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Attitudes of school children towards children with special needs ( We will use Chedoke- McMaster Attitude Scale towards Children with Disabilities.)

  The scale is a Likert-type scale consisting of 31 items and is based on children's self-reports. The answers are 0 (strongly disagree), 1 (disagree), 2 (not sure), 3 (agree), 4 (strongly agree). A minimum score of 0 and a maximum score of 124 is obtained from the scale. Scores ranging from 0 to 124 points are obtained in the scale (Chedoke- McMaster Attitude Scale towards Children with Disabilities). As the score increases, children's attitudes change positively.

  Before the intervention, Immediately after the intervention and one month after completion of the study.

Study Arms (1)

Education

EXPERIMENTAL

Other: Education

Interventions

Education OTHER

A training consisting of 8 sessions of 40 minutes each will be applied to the children. One session will be done every week. The training will consist of activities including information, discussion and role-playing about children with special needs. The training topics consist of; Children with Special Needs Empathy Differences, Respect for Differences Contact Activity Awareness Benevolence Social Acceptance and Behaviour What can we do?

Education

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 9 Years - 10 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• Without any disability
• Parents and siblings do not have a disability
• Have the ability to read and write in Turkish
• No child with a disability in their class
• Children aged 9-10 years attending primary school in Mersin province

You may not qualify if:

• With any disability
• Parents and siblings have a disability
• No ability to read and write in Turkish
• A child with a disability in their class Written, verbal consent is not obtained

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Mersin University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Sümeyye Kaya Kocagil

Mersin, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

Related Publications (2)

• Cicek Gumus E, Oncel S. Validity and Reliability of The Chedoke-McMaster Attitudes Towards Children with Handicaps Scale in Turkey: A Methodological Study. Florence Nightingale J Nurs. 2020 Mar 6;28(1):1-12. doi: 10.5152/FNJN.2020.426719. eCollection 2020 Feb.

  PMID: 34263180 BACKGROUND

• Alnahdi GH, Schwab S, Elahdi A, Alnahdi AH. The Positive Impact of Joint Activities on Students Attitudes Toward Peers With Disabilities. Front Psychol. 2021 Sep 8;12:690546. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.690546. eCollection 2021.

  PMID: 34566769 BACKGROUND

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Behavior

Interventions

Educational Status

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Socioeconomic Factors; Population Characteristics

Study Officials

• Rana Yiğit, Proffessor

  Mersin University

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal Investigator

Model Details: Pre-experimental, nested design in mixed methodology

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: November 25, 2023
• First Posted: December 11, 2023
• Study Start: January 1, 2024
• Primary Completion: January 5, 2024
• Study Completion: March 1, 2024
• Last Updated: April 9, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-04

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

TU (1)