EMBRACE YOUR POWER
Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age10-14
SponsorUniversity of Bucharest
About this trial
The goal of this randomized controlled trial is to test the effectiveness of an educational tool, based on virtual reality (VR), for preventing and combating bullying and for improving the emotional well-being of pre-adolescent students.
Participants will be allocated to one of two conditions:
* (1) intervention group: Embrace your power intervention for combating bullying; * (2) waitlist (inactive control): the control group receives intervention after the study ends.
The intervention group will be compared to the control group in terms of peer aggression and victimization (bullying behaviors) and emotional symptoms.
Eligibility criteria
This trial accepts healthy volunteersQualifiers
Students 5th and 6th grade
Students whose parents have given their consent and who have also agreed to participate in the program
Disqualifiers
epilepsy
presence of seizures
severe motion sickness- vestibular disorders
significant vision problems that would interfere with the use of the headset
Trial design
Design model
Parallel
Treatments tested in this trial
Embrace Your Power: A VR Journey to Overcome Negative Emotions
BehavioralEYP-VR represents a virtual reality (VR) educational tool to combat bullying. Using Meta Quest 3 passthrough technology, the app combines real-world classroom elements with immersive virtual scenarios, enabling safe and interactive experiences that simulate bullying situations but that do not place students in the roles of victims or aggressors but heroes or protectors. The app guides participants through narrative episodes focused on building empathy, practicing assertiveness, and learning conflict resolution techniques. AI-driven characters dynamically respond to students' actions as they engage in puzzles, and sensory feedback (visual, auditory, and haptic) reinforces key socio-emotional learning outcomes. The program will take place in classrooms during instructional hours. Each session will end with a feedback phase so that the school counselor can manage any issues that interest them.
Treatment groups
300 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groupsGroup A: InterventionExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: WaitlistNo intervention 0 interventions
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
1
Bullying behaviors
Bullying behaviors will be measured using the Adolescent Peer Relations Instrument (APRI) -C2. The instrument encompasses bullying victimization, perpetration, and bystander experiences. APRI represents a psychometric tool that measures teens' experiences with bullying and victimization through 36 items rated on a 6-point Likert scale (1= never, 6= every day).
Time frame
Pre-intervention (baseline), middle intervention, post-intervention (week 7)Secondary outcomes
1
Emotional symptoms
Emotional distress will be assessed using the Emotional Symptoms subscale from the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire - SDQ (Romanian self-report). The instrument consists of 25 items, and 5 items are representative of emotional symptoms. Items are rated on a 3-point Likert scale where 1= untrue and 3= certainly true.
Time frame
Pre-intervention (baseline), middle intervention, post-intervention (week 7)Other outcomes
1
Strengths and Difficulties
The other subscales from the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) will be used to measure conduct problems (5 items), hyperactivity/inattention (5 items), peer relationship problems (5 items) and prosocial behavior (5 items). Items are measured on a 3-point Likert scale where 1= untrue and 5= certainly true.
Time frame
Pre-intervention (baseline), middle intervention, post-intervention (week 7)Sponsors and contacts
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University of Bucharest
Lead sponsor
Remnant Dream SRL
Collaborator
Source ClinicalTrials.gov
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