Workshops Based on Protection Motivation Theory and Climate Change

NCT06681792 | Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: 2025/122
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 66
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

"This study aims to evaluate the impact of climate change workshops grounded in Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) on students' climate change awareness, environmental consciousness, and pro-environmental behaviors. The primary objective is to foster awareness, environmental literacy, and sustainable behavioral shifts among middle school students, thereby empowering them to adopt eco-friendly practices to mitigate the effects of climate change. Note on Protocol Revision: Due to cognitive suitability concerns identified during the pilot phase, the target population was shifted from primary to middle school students following expert consultation. This shift necessitated modifications to certain assessment instruments. These revisions have been approved by the ethics committee, and a new ethics approval number has been issued (Date of first protocol entry: July,2024).

Conditions

Climate Change; Students; Health Behavior

Keywords

Protection Motivation Theory; Primary School Students; Climate Change; Awareness; Eco-friendly behavior

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (3)

• Global clımate change awareness scale for middle school students

  The scale developed by Satmaz et al. (2024) consists of 19 items across three sub-dimensions: 'effects of climate change,' 'knowledge awareness,' and 'causes of climate change.' The scale's reliability coefficient (Cronbach's alpha) was found to be 0.910, and the total explained variance was 57.181%. Data were collected using a five-point Likert scale, ranging from 1 (Strongly Agree) to 5 (Strongly Disagree), with intermediate values representing varying degrees of agreement.

  T0 (Pre-test) T1 (15 days after the end of the procedure) T2 (3 months after the end of the procedure)

• Environmental Attitudes at the Middle School Level

  The scale, developed by Sontay et al. (2015), consists of 15 items and three sub-dimensions. The sub-dimensions of the scale are "environmental responsibility", "environmental sensitivity", and "environmental perception". The environmental sensitivity sub-dimension of the scale has 5 items, and its Cronbach alpha value is 0.807. While the total variance of the scale is 59.075, the variance of the environmental sensitivity sub-dimension is found to be 19.1.

  T0 (Pre-test) T1 (15 days after the end of the procedure) T2 (3 months after the end of the procedure)

• Environmental Responsible Behavior Scale

  The Environmental Responsible Behaviors Scale (ERBS) was developed to measure environmentally responsible behaviors in fifth-grade students (Erdogan, Ok, and Marcinkowski, 2012). The scale under consideration is comprised of 26 items and four sub-dimensions: physical conservation behavior, consumption and economic behavior, personal and general persuasion behavior, and political behavior. The Cronbach's alpha values for the sub-dimensions are as follows: 0.80 for physical conservation behavior, 0.60 for consumption and economic behavior, 0.79 for personal and general persuasion behavior, and 0.91 for political behavior. The scale's validity was assessed through confirmatory factor analysis, which yielded favorable results. An increase in the scale score is indicative of a positive change in behavior.

  T0 (Pre-test) T1 (15 days after the end of the procedure) T2 (3 months after the end of the procedure)

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• The Questionnaire on Children's Perceptions of the Four Elements of the Theory of Protective Motivation

  T0 (Pre-test) T1 (15 days after the end of the procedure) T2 (3 months after the end of the procedure)

Study Arms (2)

Climate Change Mitigation Workshop Grup

EXPERIMENTAL

The experimental group will take part in seven weekly workshops based on Protection Motivation Theory .

Behavioral: Climate Change Workshops Based on Protection Motivation Theory

No-intervention Control

NO INTERVENTION

The control group will not receive any intervention. It was planned to apply the data collection instruments to the control group under the supervision of the researcher and in parallel with the intervention group during the same period.

Interventions

Climate Change Workshops Based on Protection Motivation Theory BEHAVIORAL

The experimental group will participate in five weekly workshops. Each workshop is scheduled to last 40 minutes. The climate change awareness workshops, grounded in Protection Motivation Theory, will address the following subjects: the balance of nature and climate change, the adoption of environmentally friendly behaviours, calculating one's ecological footprint, mitigating the effects of climate change, and the Eco-School program. The workshops will include a variety of interactive activities, such as students expressing their thoughts on weekly topics, playing topic-related games, brainstorming, watching videos, writing essays, making seed balls, and delivering presentations. Feedback was obtained from four experts for the prepared workshops. The programme was evaluated in terms of content, duration, and compatibility with the model by experts in the fields of public health (three) and education and programme development (one).

Climate Change Mitigation Workshop Grup

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 12 Years - 13 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• Being 12-13 years old and attend the school where the study is being conducted,
• Voluntarily agree to take part in the research,
• Consent from the student's family to participate in the study,

You may not qualify if:

• \* If the pupil has an allergy to plants or grass.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Selcuk University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Selçuklu Belediyesi Ortaokulu

Konya, 42130, Turkey (Türkiye)

RECRUITING

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Health Behavior

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior

Central Study Contacts

Deniz Kocoglu-Tanyer, PhD

CONTACT

+903322350896; deniizkocoglu@gmail.com

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Masking Details: Masking will not be possible due to the method of application of this study. However, the data collector, statistician and reporting will be masked during the research process. In the research process, pre-test data will be collected by the teachers workin in the study school. The post-test data will be collected by another researcher (a researcher trained in the data collection form and trained in the field of nursing). The research data will be transferred to the computer by the researcher who collected the post-test data by coding the experimental and control groups as 'environment' and 'world' respectively. The transferred database will be analysed by a statistical expert. After the research report has been written, the codings made for the experimental and control groups will be explained.
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Prof.Dr

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: November 5, 2024
• First Posted: November 8, 2024
• Study Start: February 18, 2026
• Primary Completion: April 1, 2026
• Study Completion (Estimated): July 1, 2026
• Last Updated: March 25, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-03

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share
• Shared Documents: STUDY PROTOCOL, ICF
• Time Frame: Beginning 3 months and ending 2 years after the publication of results
• Access Criteria: the datasets used and/or analyzed during the current study are available by emailing deniizkocoglu@gmail.com upon reasonable request.

Locations

TU (1)