The Effect of Privacy Education With Virtual Reality Application on Children's Privacy Awareness and Saying No Skills

Yuzuncu Yıl University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Privacy Education

Treatments: Other: virtual reality supported privacy education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07123831

2024\07-39

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of virtual reality (VR)-based privacy education on 4th grade students' privacy awareness (PA) and ability to say no (SN) levels. The study was conducted in a primary school affiliated to the Ministry of National Education in a province in the Eastern Anatolia Region between November 2024 and May 2025 with a pretest/posttest control group. The population of the study consists of 4th grade students studying in primary schools in the province. The school where the data were collected was determined by lottery method among the schools that met the sample size.In the G*Power analysis, it was calculated that 88 students would be sufficient, but the study was completed by including 97 students. The experimental (S=46) and control groups (S=51) were determined by lottery. Students in the experimental group were given privacy training using Peeq SC-AI05 virtual reality (VR) goggles. Child Descriptive Information Form, Privacy Awareness Scale for Primary School Students (PAS) and Ability to Say No Scale for Children (NS) were used as data collection tools.Data were analyzed with SPSS V26 program. Ethical principles were adhered to during the research process.

Enrollment: 97 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 12 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:The student verbally expresses his/her willingness to participate,

• Parent's approval of the informed consent form,
• Being in the fourth grade at primary school level,
• The inclusion criteria were that the student was open to communication and did not have any psychological or chronic health problems.

Exclusion Criteria:Those who do not want to participate in the research and those who want to withdraw during the research process

• Incomplete completion of the scale or questionnaire

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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97 participants in 2 patient groups

No Intervention Group

No Intervention group

Description:

no intervention in the control group

VR-Based Privacy Education

Experimental group

Description:

the experimental group was provided with virtual reality glasses supported privacy training

Treatment:

Other: virtual reality supported privacy education