The Effect of Simulation and Out-of-Class Educational Activities on Sustainability Among Nursing Students

NCT06970197 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: 85
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 72
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This research will be conducted to evaluate the effects of simulation and out-of-class education activities intervention given to students using the Ecological Planet Health Model on environmental literacy, sustainability knowledge, sustainability attitudes in nursing and sustainable consumption behaviors of nursing students. The research will be conducted at Selçuk University Faculty of Nursing and Selçuk University Selçuk Pharmacy Simulation Unit located in Konya province. The study group consists of second-year students (n=204) studying and attending courses at Selçuk University Faculty of Nursing in the Spring Semester of 2024-2025 Academic Year. The sample size was determined as a total of 72 students.

Conditions

Sustainability; Randomized Controlled Trial; Public Health Nursing

Keywords

nursing; sustainability; simulation; out-of-class education

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (4)

• Sustainability awareness scale knowledge dimension

  14 weeks

• Sustainability attitudes in nursing survey

  14 weeks

• Sustainable consumption behavior scale

  14 weeks

• Environmental literacy scale

  14 weeks

Study Arms (3)

control group

NO INTERVENTION

The control group will not receive any intervention and will attend other courses within the scope of their undergraduate education. After the intervention part of the study is completed, the educational content given to the intervention group will be shared with the control group.

simulation group

EXPERIMENTAL

After the theoretical training, the students in the simulation group will participate in three different simulation applications for three weeks. The simulation application will be carried out using high-fidelity simulation (standard patient and simulator) in the simulation unit and will include prebriefing, simulation application and debriefing sessions.

Other: simülation group

out-of-class educational activities group

EXPERIMENTAL

Three out-of-class educational activities were planned by the researchers within the scope of experiential learning.

Other: out-of-class educational activities group

Interventions

simülation group OTHER

İncludes high reality simulation applications.

simulation group

out-of-class educational activities group OTHER

It includes a tour of the sales facility, a sapling planting activity and an "action for the environment" activity to provide experiential learning.

out-of-class educational activities group

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• Being a second year undergraduate nursing student

You may not qualify if:

• Working in any health institution or organization,
• Being a member of any environmental institution or organization,
• Being a foreign student

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Selcuk University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Selcuk University

Konya, Selçuklu, 42080, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

Related Publications (3)

• Richardson J, Heidenreich T, Alvarez-Nieto C, Fasseur F, Grose J, Huss N, Huynen M, Lopez-Medina IM, Schweizer A. Including sustainability issues in nurse education: A comparative study of first year student nurses' attitudes in four European countries. Nurse Educ Today. 2016 Feb;37:15-20. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2015.11.005. Epub 2015 Nov 10.

  PMID: 26646207 BACKGROUND

• Richardson J, Grose J, Bradbury M, Kelsey J. Developing awareness of sustainability in nursing and midwifery using a scenario-based approach: Evidence from a pre and post educational intervention study. Nurse Educ Today. 2017 Jul;54:51-55. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2017.04.022. Epub 2017 Apr 29.

  PMID: 28477563 BACKGROUND

• Abhijith K, Kumar P, Gallagher J, McNabola A, Baldauf R, Pilla F, Broderick B, Di Sabatino S, Pulvirenti B, 2017. Air pollution abatement performances of green infrastructure in open road and built-up street canyon environments-A review. Atmospheric environment, 162, 71-86.

  BACKGROUND

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Masking Details: Since the researcher was the person who monitored the implementation of the intervention to the students in the intervention group and actively carried out the process, researcher blinding could not be applied. However, blinding will be applied by ensuring that the data collection tools are made by a faculty member who is not involved in the research. In order to prevent bias in the evaluation of the data, statistical blinding will be applied by ensuring that the statistics of the data collected as a result of the research are made by an independent statistician.
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Lecturer

Model Details: This research is a parallel group pre-test-post-test randomized controlled experimental design.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: April 13, 2025
• First Posted: May 14, 2025
• Study Start: February 10, 2025
• Primary Completion: September 30, 2025
• Study Completion: December 1, 2025
• Last Updated: January 7, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-01

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

TU (1)