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Mobile Intervention to Enhance Adolescents’ Awareness about Climate Change and Its Adverse Effect

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Background: Identifying adolescent awareness regarding climate change, is essential preliminary step in determining gaps and paving the way for awareness campaigns that address climate change causes and counteraction mitigation measures. Aim: This study aim to determine the effect of mobile intervention to enhance adolescents' awareness about climate change and its adverse effect. Design: A quasi-experimental research design was used for this study. Setting: This study was carried in Three secondary schools namely Fatima AlZahra, Hoda Shaarawy and 25 January official languages. affiliated to El-Massara Administration, Helwan, Cairo Governorate, Egypt.  Sample: A multi-stage random sample was used. The total number of adolescents was 377. Tools: Four tools were used in this study: First: Structured interview questionnaire which consisted of the following parts: Part 1: Characteristics data of studied adolescents, Part 2: Knowledge of studied adolescents about climate change. Second: Studied adolescents' daily life reported practice. Third: Studied adolescents' attitude Likert scale toward climate change. Fourth: Studied adolescents' awareness. Results: The current study revealed that, 54.4% and 62.3% of studied adolescents had poor knowledge and inadequate reported practices about climate change respectively at pre-intervention, which improved 80.4% and 76.1% at post-intervention respectively had good knowledge and adequate reported practices. 69.5%  of them had a negative attitude and 59.4%  of them had low awareness about climate change at  pre-intervention, which improved to 78.8% and 75.3% at post-intervention had a positive attitude and high awareness respectively toward climate change. The differences between pre and post-interventions revealed highly statistically significant differences. Conclusion: Mobile intervention had been positive effect in achieving significant improvements in adolescents' knowledge, reported practices, attitudes, and awareness regarding climate change and its adverse effect. Also, there was a positive correlation between their total knowledge, reported practices, attitudes and awareness. Recommendation: Educational programs should be designed to increase climate literacy and awareness, as well as to empower adolescents to move towards sustainability and Its adverse effect.

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10.21608/ejhc.2022.317098

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Adolescents’ Awareness, Climate Change, Mobile intervention

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Abdalsemia Elewa

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Assistant Professor of Pediatric Nursing1, Faculty of Nursing, Helwan University1

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Khamis Kassem

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Assistant Professor of Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University

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Said Mohamed El-zayat

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Assistant Professor of Community Health Nursing 2, Faculty of Nursing, Helwan University

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13

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3

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35657

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2022-09-01

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2023-09-12

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2022-09-01

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1687-9546

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3009-6766

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Egyptian Journal of Health Care

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Mobile Intervention to Enhance Adolescents’ Awareness about Climate Change and Its Adverse Effect

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24 Dec 2024