Climate Change Training for Primary Health Care Workers

NCT07809035 | Enrolling By Invitation

• 1 other identifier: 2025/14-10
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 80
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Improving climate change awareness among primary care nurses is of great importance for the future of the health sector. Increasing this awareness enables primary care workers to combat environmental health problems more effectively and to adopt a more conscious approach to protecting public health. Climate change is a global public health problem that negatively affects fundamental determinants of health such as clean air, clean drinking water, food, and safe shelter. Nurses, in particular, must understand these environmental risks and develop strategies to ensure the sustainability of health services. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of climate change awareness training given to primary care nurses on their climate change awareness levels.

Conditions

Climate Change Awareness

Keywords

climate change; primary health care; nursing; awareness

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Prior to the intervention, the Climate Change Awareness Scale will be administered to both the experimental and control groups.

  The Climate Change Awareness Scale will be administered prior to the intervention. The scale is a five-point Likert type scale consisting of 52 items and five sub-dimensions: (1) climate change awareness, (2) perception of the problem, (3) knowledge of the causes, (4) level of anxiety, and (5) expectations regarding behaviors and policies. Scores on the scale range from 52 to 260, with higher scores indicating greater awareness of climate change.

  pre -intervention

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• The climate change awareness scale will be administered to both the experimental group and the control group on Day 1, immediately following the intervention.

  post intervention first day

Other Outcomes (1)

• One month after the intervention, the climate change awareness scale will be administered to both the experimental and control groups.

  one month after the intervention

Study Arms (2)

The experimental group will receive a one-day training program consisting of three sessions, prepare

EXPERIMENTAL

The experimental group will receive a one-day training program consisting of three sessions, prepared by the researchers.Climate change awareness of the experimental group will be measured before, after, and one month after the training.

Other: scenario-based climate change awareness training.

CONTROL GROUP

NO INTERVENTION

limate change awareness of the control group will be measured before, after, and one month after the training, and compared with the experimental group.

Interventions

scenario-based climate change awareness training. OTHER

The experimental group will receive a one-day training program consisting of three sessions, prepared by the researchers. The training will be given by the researchers in the conference hall of the district health directorate. Climate change awareness will be measured in both the experimental and control groups before, after, and one month after the training. The control group will also receive training after the intervention.

The experimental group will receive a one-day training program consisting of three sessions, prepare

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• Being a nurse or midwife
• Working in primary care facilities (Family health centers, Migrant health centers, District health directorate)

You may not qualify if:

• To be a medical secretary
• To work outside of primary care settings

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Maltepe University: lead

Study Sites (1)

maltepe University

Maltepe, Büyükbakkalköy Mahallesi, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: DOUBLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Asisstant Professor

Model Details: In this study, the district health directorate will send training invitations, and those who accept will be randomly selected as the experimental and control groups. Participants will be randomly ranked from 1 to 80 using the website https://www.random.org/lists/. This process will be repeated twice. The experimental group will be randomly selected from the two prepared lists using a coin toss. The experimental group will receive a one-day training program consisting of three sessions, prepared by the researchers. The training will be given by the researchers in the conference hall of the district health directorate. Climate change awareness of both the experimental and control groups will be measured before, after, and one month after the training.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: August 9, 2026
• First Posted: September 9, 2026
• Study Start: July 30, 2026
• Primary Completion: August 30, 2026
• Study Completion (Estimated): December 30, 2026
• Last Updated: September 25, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-09

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

TU (1)