Menstrual Management Using a Mobile Application in Adolescent Girls With Mild Intellectual Disabilities

Официальное название

Independent Life Support Program; Determination of the Effectiveness of Menstruation Management Training Given With Mobile Application (Independent I Can) in Female Adolescents With Mild Intellectual Disabilities

Обзор

In the study conducted to determine the effectiveness of menstruation management training given with a mobile application (Bağımsız Yapabilirim) in female adolescents with mild intellectual disabilities in the independent living support program, the effect of the developed mobile application on hand hygiene and pad change will be determined. The research is a randomized controlled study.

Подробное описание

When the existing literature is examined, it is seen that there are limited number of studies on menstruation management education. In the studies, menstrual hygiene education was given to mentally disabled adolescent girls in small groups with model dolls or videos on social media that were not prepared by experts. Although these studies show that menstrual hygiene education given to mentally disabled students is successful, they are limited to small sample groups. For adolescent girls with intellectual disabilities, the onset of menstruation affects their independence and creates additional concerns for mothers at home, at school and in other settings. In studies conducted with mothers of adolescent girls with intellectual disabilities, mothers reported that they worried about their daughters' inability to understand menstruation, inability to change pads or dispose of them in the trash can appropriately, inability to pay attention to privacy during these special days, and that they did not send their daughters to school because they thought that they could not manage the menstruation process. Mothers' worries and fears during this process cause adolescent girls with intellectual disabilities to spend approximately one week at home every month, preventing them from socializing, negatively affecting their academic skills, further slowing their developmental processes and making it difficult for them to get used to independent life. In addition, studies show that the quality of life of both mothers and girls decreases significantly due to poor management of the menstruation process.

The main aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of menstruation management training given to female adolescents with mild intellectual disabilities using a mobile application (Bağımsız Yapabilirim).

Вмешательства

• Поведенческое Education with mobile application
  The "I Can Do It Independently" mobile application developed by the researchers includes two training videos on hand hygiene and menstruation management. Adolescents will be asked to play the games related to the training after watching the training videos. Thus, it is aimed for the participant to reinforce the training. The mobile application was developed by a multidisciplinary team of special education, nurse, midwife and software engineering academicians specifically for female adolescents w

Первичные конечные точки

• Introductory Form for Mothers and Female Adolescents with Intellectual Disabilities [Срок оценки: 1st Time: Day 1]

Вторичные конечные точки (1)

• Hand Hygiene Skill Performance Recording Chart [Срок оценки: 1st Time: Day 1, 2nd Time: Day 30, 3rd Time: Day 90, 4th Time: Day 240]

Критерии участия

Критерии включения

• Diagnosed with mild intellectual disability
• Menstrual cycle has started and menstruation is regular
• Primary caregivers are mothers
• Toilet-trained
• Has the ability to stick an adhesive object to a surface and remove it from the surface
• Have the ability to dress and undress
• Have the ability to follow simple instructions
• Adolescent girls and their mothers who have the ability to recognize the materials to be used will be included in the study.

Критерии исключения

• Not willing to use the mobile application at any stage of the study
• Participated in a different training on menstruation management while the research was ongoing
• Not completing the education process
• Not completing the data collection forms
• Mentally disabled adolescent girls with moderate, severe and very severe intellectual disabilities and their mothers will be excluded from the study.

Критерии приведены из реестра в оригинале (на английском). Окончательную оценку соответствия проводит исследовательский центр.

Здоровые добровольцы: Да

Дизайн исследования

Распределение

Рандомизированное

Модель

Параллельные группы

Маскирование

Двойное слепое

Основная цель

Поддерживающая терапия

Центры проведения

Turkey (Türkiye) · 1 центр

• Selçuklu Özel Eğitim Meslek Okulu — Konya

Публикации

• Güler, Ç. 2019. "A structural equation model to examine mobile application usability and use." Bilişim Teknolojileri Dergisi, 12(3), 169-181.
• Genç, Z., Masalimova, A., Platonova, R., Sizova, Z., Popova, O. 2019. "Analysis of documents published in scopus database on special education learning through mobile learning: A content analysis". International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (IJET), 14(22), 192-203.
• Bakır, D., Demirli, C. 2020. "Investigation of the impact of self-compassion and family support perception on parenting stress in parents who have children with learning disability, autism spectrum disorder and mental disability". Humanistic Perspective, 2 (3), 271-282 .
• Açar, D., Dilbilir, Y., Demiralp, C. 2022. "Özel eğitim öğretmenlerinin zihinsel yetersizliği olan çocukların eğitimi sürecindeki görüşlerinin incelenmesi". Abant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi, 22(3), 1295-1312.

Идентификаторы

NCT: NCT07016932 · 2024/288 · 323S198

Первоисточники (государственные реестры)

• ClinicalTrials.gov (NIH, США)

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