NCT06885580

Digital Media Privacy Literacy Training

The Effects of Digital Media Privacy Literacy Education on Children's Autonomy, Decision-making and Privacy Awareness

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 184 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ataturk University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 9 Years – 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this randomized controlled experimental study is to evaluate the effects of digital privacy literacy education on children's autonomy, decision-making and privacy awareness.The hypotheses of the study are as follows; H1a: Digital privacy literacy education has an effect on children's autonomy. H1b: Digital privacy literacy education has an effect on children's decision-making. H1c: Digital privacy literacy education has an effect on children's privacy awareness.

Detailed description

The research will be conducted with 4th grade students (9-12 years old) who are receiving education in a primary school affiliated to Ağrı Provincial Directorate of National Education and who meet the inclusion criteria. Students will be divided into 2 groups as experimental and control groups by simple random method. Digital environment privacy literacy training will be provided to the experimental group, while no training will be provided to the control group. Data will be collected using "Child Information Form", "Autonomy Survey" and "Primary School Students' Privacy Consciousness Scale".

Conditions

• Student
• Digital Health Literacy
• Autonomy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Education	Students will be provided with digital privacy literacy training designed using the puzzle method, which will consist of 8 sessions over a 12-week period.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-10-10
• Primary completion: 2024-12-20
• Completion: 2024-12-20
• First posted: 2025-03-20
• Last updated: 2025-06-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)