StudentNCT06885580
Digital Media Privacy Literacy Training
A study testing Education in people with Student and Digital Health Literacy, run by Ataturk University at 1 site in Turkey (Türkiye).
Trial 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. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 9 to 12 yearsHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Student, Digital Health Literacy, Autonomy
- What is being tested?
- Education
- Type of treatment
- Lifestyle or therapy programme
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 184 participants
- Where
- 1 siteTurkey (Türkiye)
- Study dates
- 10 Oct 2024to 20 Dec 2024
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 9 to 12 years
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Child
Who may be able to join
- Being in the 4th grade of primary school
- Not being an inclusive student
- Parent's written consent to participate in the research
- Child's verbal consent to participate in the research
Who cannot join
- Child/parent wants to leave the study at any stage
- Child does not attend the training sessions 2 or more times
- Child does not complete at least one of the pre-test and post-test data collection tools
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
About this study
Official title: The Effects of Digital Media Privacy Literacy Education on Children's Autonomy, Decision-making and Privacy Awareness
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.
Read the 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
- Being tested
- Education
- Keywords
- children, digital privacy literacy, autonomy, decision making, privacy awareness
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
EducationBehavioural
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.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Experimental | Digital privacy literacy training will be provided in 8 sessions over a 12-week period. Receives: Behavioral: Education |
| Control | No intervention | No educational intervention |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Autonomy Survey
The survey was developed to determine the level of autonomy of 4th and 5th grade primary school students. The autonomy survey consists of 2 sections. The first section contains 20 items regarding children's decisional autonomy. The second section contains 19 items regarding children's behavioral autonomy. The survey is a four-point Likert-type scale and is scored as never: 1, sometimes: 2, often: 3, always: 4. There are no reverse-coded items in the survey. All items in the survey are collected according to their sections to measure the relevant autonomy. As the total score obtained from the survey increases, the level of autonomy also increases. Researchers found the Cronbach-Alpha internal consistency coefficient of the survey as .84.
In this study, the first section of the autonomy survey, decisional autonomy, was used. Scores between 20 and 80 are obtained from this section.
Measured: 1 weeks
Privacy Awareness Scale of Primary School Students
It was developed to determine the level of privacy awareness of primary school 3rd and 4th grade students. The scale consists of 4 factors and 16 items. These factors are; Personal Security, Sharing of Personal Information, Social Media Privacy, Parental Control. The scale is a 3-point Likert type and is scored as disagree: 1, undecided: 2, agree: 3. There are 2 reverse items in the scale (items 7 and 13). The score that can be obtained from the scale varies between 16 and 48 points. The sub-factors and total score in the scale are obtained by adding the item scores.
Measured: 1 weeks
Introductory Information Form
The introductory information form, which was created by the researcher by scanning the relevant literature, consists of a total of 9 questions regarding the student's age, gender, mother's education level, father's education level, socioeconomic status, who owns the digital device he/she uses to access the internet, the frequency of use of digital devices, the purpose for which he/she uses the internet, and whether he/she has a social media account.
Measured: 1 weeks
Secondary outcomes (2)
Autonomy survey
The survey was developed to determine the level of autonomy of 4th and 5th grade primary school students. The autonomy survey consists of 2 sections. The first section contains 20 items regarding children's decisional autonomy. The second section contains 19 items regarding children's behavioral autonomy. The survey is a four-point Likert-type scale and is scored as never: 1, sometimes: 2, often: 3, always: 4. There are no reverse-coded items in the survey. All items in the survey are collected according to their sections to measure the relevant autonomy. As the total score obtained from the survey increases, the level of autonomy also increases. Researchers found the Cronbach-Alpha internal consistency coefficient of the survey as .84. In this study, the first section of the autonomy survey, decisional autonomy, was used. Scores between 20 and 80 are obtained from this section.
Measured: 12 weeks
Privacy Awareness Scale of Primary School Students
It was developed to determine the level of privacy awareness of primary school 3rd and 4th grade students. The scale consists of 4 factors and 16 items. These factors are; Personal Security, Sharing of Personal Information, Social Media Privacy, Parental Control. The scale is a 3-point Likert type and is scored as disagree: 1, undecided: 2, agree: 3. There are 2 reverse items in the scale (items 7 and 13). The score that can be obtained from the scale varies between 16 and 48 points. The sub-factors and total score in the scale are obtained by adding the item scores.
Measured: 12 weeks
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted20 Mar 2025
- Study start10 Oct 2024
- Primary completion20 Dec 2024
- Study completion20 Dec 2024
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for StudentStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
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More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Health services research
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Model description
- Students will be assigned to 2 groups: experimental and control group.
- Masking
- Single blind
- Who is masked
- Outcomes assessor
- Enrolment
- 184 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Ataturk University
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, Reyhan Yalcın, Ataturk University
- Investigators
- Türkan Kadiroğlu, PhD, Study director, Ataturk University
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT06885580
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- AtaturkU-RY-1
- Status last verified
- Jun 2025
- First submitted
- 14 Mar 2025
- Last updated
- 18 Jun 2025
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- Yes
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- No
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 18 Jun 2025. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- The Effects of Digital Media Privacy Literacy Education on Children's Autonomy, Decision-making and Privacy Awareness
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT06885580
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- AtaturkU-RY-1
- Conditions
- Student, Digital Health Literacy, Autonomy
- Keywords
- children, digital privacy literacy, autonomy, decision making, privacy awareness
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Enrolment
- 184 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- Ataturk UniversityUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- 10 Oct 2024 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 20 Dec 2024 (actual)
- Study completion
- 20 Dec 2024 (actual)
- First posted
- 20 Mar 2025 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
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".
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Health services research
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- Single blind (outcomes assessor)
- Number of arms
- 2
- Model description
- Students will be assigned to 2 groups: experimental and control group.
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Experimental | Behavioral: EducationDigital privacy literacy training will be provided in 8 sessions over a 12-week period. |
| Control | No intervention | –No educational intervention |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 9 to 12 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Child
Key inclusion criteria (4 listed)
- Being in the 4th grade of primary school
- Not being an inclusive student
- Parent's written consent to participate in the research
- Child's verbal consent to participate in the research
Key exclusion criteria (3 listed)
- Child/parent wants to leave the study at any stage
- Child does not attend the training sessions 2 or more times
- Child does not complete at least one of the pre-test and post-test data collection tools
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| EducationStudents will be provided with digital privacy literacy training designed using the puzzle method, which will consist of 8 sessions over a 12-week period. | Behavioural | Education |
Primary outcome
Autonomy Survey
Time frame: 1 weeks
The survey was developed to determine the level of autonomy of 4th and 5th grade primary school students. The autonomy survey consists of 2 sections. The first section contains 20 items regarding children's decisional autonomy. The second section contains 19 items regarding children's behavioral autonomy. The survey is a four-point Likert-type scale and is scored as never: 1, sometimes: 2, often: 3, always: 4. There are no reverse-coded items in the survey. All items in the survey are collected according to their sections to measure the relevant autonomy. As the total score obtained from the survey increases, the level of autonomy also increases. Researchers found the Cronbach-Alpha internal consistency coefficient of the survey as .84. In this study, the first section of the autonomy survey, decisional autonomy, was used. Scores between 20 and 80 are obtained from this section.
Privacy Awareness Scale of Primary School Students
Time frame: 1 weeks
It was developed to determine the level of privacy awareness of primary school 3rd and 4th grade students. The scale consists of 4 factors and 16 items. These factors are; Personal Security, Sharing of Personal Information, Social Media Privacy, Parental Control. The scale is a 3-point Likert type and is scored as disagree: 1, undecided: 2, agree: 3. There are 2 reverse items in the scale (items 7 and 13). The score that can be obtained from the scale varies between 16 and 48 points. The sub-factors and total score in the scale are obtained by adding the item scores.
Introductory Information Form
Time frame: 1 weeks
The introductory information form, which was created by the researcher by scanning the relevant literature, consists of a total of 9 questions regarding the student's age, gender, mother's education level, father's education level, socioeconomic status, who owns the digital device he/she uses to access the internet, the frequency of use of digital devices, the purpose for which he/she uses the internet, and whether he/she has a social media account.
2 secondary outcomes
Autonomy survey
Time frame: 12 weeks
Privacy Awareness Scale of Primary School Students
Time frame: 12 weeks
Results and safety
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 18 Jun 2025.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: No
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Türkan Kadiroğlu, PhD study director
Ataturk University
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Education in people with Student and Digital Health Literacy, run by Ataturk University at 1 site in Turkey (Türkiye).
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 4 inclusion and 3 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 18 Jun 2025. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in Turkey (Türkiye). Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Autonomy Survey (time frame: 1 weeks). The study lists 3 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 18 Jun 2025.