Research on Alleviating Children's Nighttime Fear Using a Digital Game.

Nighttime fear is common among children and may negatively affect their growth. Given the positive role of digital games in regulating children's emotions, in this study, we proposed principles for the design of a digital game to alleviate children's nighttime fears and developed a game prototype based on a survey of children and their parents. In order to verify whether digital games can reduce children's fears, the Koala Fear Questionnaire (KFQ) was used to assess the effectiveness of the game prototype in an experiment.