Disability Physical, Respect, Social Acceptance
Conditions
Keywords
Physical disability, Social inclusion, Disability simulation, Education
Brief summary
To improve secondary school students' positive attitudes towards older adults with physical disabilities via a Promoting an incLUsive Society towards older adults with physical disabilities through disability simulation education (PLUS) project.
Detailed description
A pretest-posttest and qualitative study design will be adopted. 1,000 junior secondary students will be recruited from six secondary schools in Hong Kong by convenience sampling to participate in a 3-day PLUS Convention. Changes in students' attitudes towards older adults with physical disabilities and satisfaction with life, and their satisfaction with the disability simulation experience will be assessed. Semi-structured interviews will be conducted with students, facilitators, teachers, and older adults with physical disabilities to gain further feedback.
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL3-day PLUS Convention
Participants will participate in a 3-day PLUS Convention, comprising an inclusivity education workshop, a service-learning seminar, a disability simulation workshop, and two community contact sessions which will consist of a 60-minute interview with an older adult with a physical disability and an outdoor experience. Discussion sessions will be facilitated throughout to consolidate learning.
Sponsors
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Intervention model description
All recruited participants will receive the intervention.
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
12 Years to 18 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
1. currently a secondary 1 to secondary 3 student 2. studying in a secondary school in Hong Kong 3. communicable in Cantonese 4. willing to attend all of the activities of the 3-day PLUS Convention
Exclusion criteria
1. have a physical or learning disability 2. diagnosed with a severe psychiatric illness
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change in the participants' attitudes towards older adults with physical disabilities | Change from baseline to immediately after completion of the intervention (2 months) | The 47-item Students' Attitudes toward People with a Disability Scale will be used. It was developed locally in the Baseline Survey of Students' Attitudes towards People with a Disability, a study conducted by the Equal Opportunities Commission in Hong Kong. It encompasses four attitude sub-scales, namely social acceptance, behavioural misconceptions, pessimism-hopelessness, and optimism-human rights. Participants will rate their agreement with each item on a 4-point Likert scale (1 = Strongly agree - 4 = Strongly disagree). The four attitude sub-scale scores will then be converted along a scale between 1-100. A higher score will indicate a more positive attitude towards people with a disability. All sub-scales had Cronbach's Alpha scores ranging from 0.69 to 0.85, which support their respectable reliability. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change in the participants' level of life satisfaction | Change from baseline to immediately after completion of the intervention (2 months) | The 5-item Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) will be adopted. Participants will rate their overall judgement of their life on a 7-point Likert scale (1 = Strongly disagree - 7 = Strongly agree). The total score ranges from 5 to 35 points, with a higher score indicating a higher satisfaction with life. The SWLS has a Cronbach's Alpha score of 0.87, supporting its internal consistency and reliability. |
| The participants' level of satisfaction with the disability simulation workshop | Immediately after completion of the disability simulation workshop (within 1 day) | The 18-item Satisfaction with Disability Simulation Experience Scale (SDSES) will be used. Participants will rate their extent of agreement with the simulations using a 5-point Likert scale (1 = Strongly disagree - 5 = Strongly agree) to indicate their satisfaction with them. A higher score will indicate higher satisfaction with the simulation experience. The survey will have one open-ended question asking students to provide additional comments about their simulation experience. The scale's internal consistency reliability is supported as its whole Cronbach's coefficient values ranged from 0.70 to 0.88. |
Countries
Hong Kong
Outcome results
None listed