| Trent Consultants News Virtual reality games | | | | to examine the effects of an anti-bullying virtual |
| could help children to escape victimisation and | | | | learning intervention called FearNot! |
| bullying at school, according to researchers at the | | | | The team recruited 1,129 children aged between |
| University of Warwick. | | | | eight and nine from 27 primary schools across the |
| Trent Consultants News Children who took part in | | | | UK and Germany. They split the children into |
| a three-week anti-bullying virtual learning | | | | intervention and control groups. The intervention |
| intervention in schools in the UK and Germany | | | | group took part in three sessions, interacting |
| showed a 26% decrease in victimisation. | | | | individually with the FearNot! software. Each |
| In the study, published in The Journal of Child | | | | session lasted around 30 minutes over a |
| Psychology and Psychiatry, Maria Sapouna and | | | | three-week period. The children were assessed on |
| Professor Dieter Wolke from Warwick Medical | | | | self-report measures of victimisation before and |
| School and the Department of Psychology at the | | | | after the intervention. |
| University of Warwick led a team of researchers | | | | |