The Effectiveness of an AI-Supported Cyberbullying Awareness Program on Adolescents' Cyberbullying

November 14, 2025 updated by: M. Furkan Kurnaz

The Effectiveness of an AI-Supported Cyberbullying Awareness Program on Adolescents' Cyberbullying: A Randomized Controlled Trial

With the increasing prevalence of cyberbullying among adolescents today, there is a greater focus on interventions targeting cyberbullying. In Turkey, cyberbullying awareness programs developed in collaboration between the Ministry of National Education (MEB) Directorate General of Special Education and Guidance Services and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) are being used. This study aims to examine the effectiveness of the cyberbullying awareness program developed by the MEB by enriching it with AI-supported content.

Study Overview

Status

Enrolling by invitation

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

With the advancement of technology, most adolescents can easily access online environments for various purposes such as communicating with others, playing games, searching for information, and socializing. Although this development offers adolescents many opportunities, it can also cause them to encounter some difficult situations. One of these difficulties is cyberbullying, which adolescents encounter in online environments. This research is important because it aims to increase adolescents' awareness of cyberbullying and examine the reduction of cyberbullying behaviors among adolescents using an awareness program enriched with AI-supported content.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Estimated)

45

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Child

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • the study include being an adolescent.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Not having any specific mental health disorder.

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: Waitlist
Adolescents in waitlist group will not receive AI-supported cyberbullying awareness program.
Experimental: Experimental Group
The cyberbullying awareness program with AI-supported videos
Other: AI-supported cyberbullying awareness program.
Participants in this arm will receive the Ministry of National Education's (MEB) cyberbullying awareness program, supplemented with AI-supported instructional videos. The intervention includes standard psychoeducational materials developed by MEB and UNICEF, along with digital videos that use AI to personalize feedback, provide scenario-based learning, and guide students through interactive exercises related to recognizing, preventing, and responding to cyberbullying. Delivery occurs through sessions in which participants watch AI-supported instructional videos integrated into the standard MEB cyberbullying awareness program.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Revised Cyber Bullying Inventory-II (RCBI-II)
Time Frame: baseline, within 1 minute after the fourth session, within 1 minute post-test, and 3 months follow-up
The Revised Cyberbullying Inventory-II (RCBI-II), revised by Topçu and Erdur-Baker (2017), assesses the levels of cyberbullying behaviors among adolescents. The RCBI-II consists of two forms: cyberbullying perpetration and cyberbullying victimization, with each form comprising 10 items. Items are rated on a four-point scale ranging from 1 (It has never happened to me) to 4 (It happened more than five times). High scores on the forms indicate high levels of cyberbullying victimization and perpetration.
baseline, within 1 minute after the fourth session, within 1 minute post-test, and 3 months follow-up

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

M. Furkan Kurnaz

Investigators

  • Study Chair: M. Furkan Kurnaz, PhD, Necmettin Erbakan University

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

November 1, 2025

Primary Completion (Estimated)

April 1, 2026

Study Completion (Estimated)

July 1, 2026

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

November 13, 2025

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

November 14, 2025

First Posted (Actual)

November 17, 2025

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

November 17, 2025

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

November 14, 2025

Last Verified

November 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

Other Study ID Numbers

  • NEU27674

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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