Cyberbullying
Conditions
Keywords
cyberbullying, cyberaggression, mobile application
Brief summary
The aim of the project is to develop and evaluate an app-based intervention for adolescents who have been exposed to cyberbullying. The overarching goal is to offer a low-threshold intervention, called NettOpp, that is easy accessible and free to use for every junior high school student who has experienced cyberbullying in Norway.
Detailed description
The main aim of the intervention is to increase coping strategies for adolescents who have been exposed to cyberbullying. More specifically the aims are to increase 1) knowledge about cyberbullying, 2) help-seeking behavior, 3) coping strategies with cyberbullying, 4) to reduce mental health problems, and 5) cyberbullying, and 6) to increase self-esteem and the 7) sleeping quality of the adolescents. To evaluate the mobile application three studies will be conducted: A lab test, a pilot study, and a larger effectiveness study with a follow-up examination after 3 months. The lab test will be conducted to examine the quality of the prototype of the app in order to find out if adjustments have to be made. Thereafter, a pilot study will be conducted with adolescents that were exposed to cyberbullying in the past six months. The pilot study will use a pre-post design.The effectiveness study will be conducted as a randomized controlled trial with an intervention group and a waiting-list control group.
Interventions
DEVICENettOpp
NettOpp is a mobile application for adolescents aged 11-16 years who have been exposed to cyberbullying or cyberaggression.
Sponsors
University of Tromso
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Intervention model description
Intervention and control group
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
11 Years to 16 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Adolescents whose guardians have given consent and who agree to take part in the study
Exclusion criteria
* severe developmental or cognitive challenges
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| CATS (Child and Adolescent Trauma Screening) | From baseline to 2 weeks after intervention, and after 3 months as follow-up. | Adolescents: CATS (Sachser et al., 2017): A 20 item self-report assessing posttraumatic stress-symptoms for 7-17 year old adolescents on a four point scale. |
| WHO-5 (WHO-Five Well-being Index) | From baseline to 2 weeks after intervention, and after 3 months as follow-up. | Adolescents: WHO-5 (WHO, 1998): A five item self-report questionnaire assessing well-being on a six point scale. |
| SDQ (Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire) | From baseline to 2 weeks after intervention, and after 3 months as follow-up. | Adolescents: SDQ (Goodman, 1997): A 25 item self-report assessing mental health and psychosocial functioning in 11-17 years old adolescents on a three point scale. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Self-liking and Competence Scale | From baseline to 2 weeks after intervention, and after 3 months as follow-up. | Adolescents: Self-liking and Competence Scale (Silvera, Neilands, \& Perry, 2001; Tafarodi \& Swann, 2001): A 20 item self-report assessing self-liking and self-competence. |
| CCQ (Cyberbullying Coping Questionnaire) | From baseline to 2 weeks after intervention, and after 3 months as follow-up. | Adolescents: CCQ (Jacobs, Völlink, Dehue, \& Lechner, 2015): A 17 item self-report assessing how often the adolescents use the different cyberbullying coping strategies. |
| Sleeping quality | From baseline to 2 weeks after intervention, and after 3 months as follow-up. | Adolescents: Sleeping quality will be measured with six questions with different response categories from the Bergen Child Study (Hysing, Harvey, Stormark, Pallesen, \& Sivertsen, 2018). |
| Help-seeking behavior | From baseline to 2 weeks after intervention, and after 3 months as follow-up. | Adolescents: three self-report items measuring if they sought help, who they sought help from, and if they received the help they needed. |
| Cyberbullying | From baseline to 2 weeks after intervention, and after 3 months as follow-up. | Adolescents: Cyberbullying (Olweus, 1993): One self-report item measuring the frequency of cyberbullying exposure. |
Countries
Norway
Contacts
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORHenriette Kyrrestad, PhD
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Outcome results
None listed