Virtual Reality, Empathy and Environmental Ethics.

NCT06413394 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: ArdahanUniversiserhatduzenci01
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 91
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Environmental ethics is a sub-branch of ethics that determines moral values and principles towards the environment. It is the common responsibility of all humanity to improve and protect the environment/nature and to hand it over to the next generations. For this reason, every segment of society should have environmental ethics awareness. Empathy is an important concept in raising awareness of environmental ethics. It is stated that the awareness of environmental ethics is also developed in people who have developed empathy skills. For this reason, it is recommended to create training programs that enable people to develop their empathy skills. The formation and establishment of environmental ethics awareness in people can prevent the occurrence of environmental problems. This can be achieved by providing an effective environmental education. Technological developments such as virtual reality can be used in environmental education. Virtual reality technologies are called empathy machines as they create a sense of presence in users. For this reason, the perception of presence in virtual reality and being included in the narrative are effective in developing empathy in the person. It is stated that the perspectives acquired in virtual reality develop empathy and encourage behaviors in favor of society in a few weeks. Virtual reality technologies are useful for us researchers, both in terms of developing empathy towards environmental problems and creating awareness of environmental ethics as an educational tool. For this reason, in this study, the effect of virtual reality supported environmental education on nurses' empathy and environmental ethics awareness levels was tried to be examined with a quasi-experimental research.

Conditions

Virtual Reality

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (4)

• Scale for Environmental Ethics Approaches

  Scale for environmental ethics approaches pre-test

  15/11/2022-31/12/2022

• Scale for Environmental Ethics Approaches

  Scale for environmental ethics approaches post-test

  16/02/2023-28/03/2023

• Adaptation of Empathy Quotient (EQ) Scale

  Adaptation of Empathy Quotient (EQ) Scale pre-test

  15/11/2022-31/12/2022

• Adaptation of Empathy Quotient (EQ) Scale

  Adaptation of Empathy Quotient (EQ) Scale post-test

  16/02/2023-28/03/2023

Study Arms (3)

Virtual reality supported environmental education group

virtual reality supported environmental education group

Other: environmental education

The group that will not receive virtual reality-supported environmental education

the group that will not receive virtual reality-supported environmental education

Other: environmental education

Control group

control group

Interventions

environmental education OTHER

environmental education

The group that will not receive virtual reality-supported environmental education; Virtual reality supported environmental education group

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Nurses

You may qualify if:

• Nurses working in ardahan state hospital

You may not qualify if:

• Nurses not working in ardahan state hospital

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Ardahan University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Ardahan Devlet Hastanesi

Ardahan, Centrium, 75000, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

Study Officials

• Bahanur Malak Akgün

  Ardahan University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: COHORT
• Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 9, 2024
• First Posted: May 14, 2024
• Study Start: October 1, 2022
• Primary Completion: April 30, 2023
• Study Completion: June 15, 2023
• Last Updated: May 21, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-05

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

TU (1)