NCT06163521

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

The Effect of Awareness Training Programme on School Age Children's Attitudes Towards Children With Special Needs: A Mixed Method Research

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 36 (actual)
• Sponsor: Mersin University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 9 Years – 10 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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.

Detailed description

Attitudes of normally developing children towards special children may be hurtful and affect their development negatively. For this reason, by conducting an educational process in which they can develop positive attitudes, social acceptance of children with special needs can be increased, their development and psychosocial support systems can be established. Within the scope of the advocacy and health promotion role of paediatric nursing, it has the responsibility to create an environment that supports the development of children with special needs and to carry out social awareness studies. In this context, children in the school period, where attitudes, behaviour patterns and habits begin to take shape, should be supported in developing positive attitudes.In this planned study, an eight-week training process will be carried out. It is planned to reveal more comprehensive results by using qualitative and quantitative data collection methods together in the evaluation of attitude changes before and after the training.

Conditions

• Attitude

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Education	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?

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-01-01
• Primary completion: 2024-01-05
• Completion: 2024-03-01
• First posted: 2023-12-11
• Last updated: 2024-04-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)