A Stage-matched Intervention Based on Transtheoretical Model of Change in Changing the Videogaming Behavior

University of Baghdad

Status: Invitation-only

Conditions: Video Game Addiction

Treatments: Behavioral: Stage-matched interventions

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05949905

Digital Gaming Behavior

Details and patient eligibility

About

A Stage-matched randomized controlled trial seeks to change the problematic digital gaming behavior among high school male students.

Full description

The researchers will use two groups (study and control) in which participants will be randomly selected and assigned in each of the study and control groups using simple random sampling.

The study intervention will be designed based on each Stage of Change of the Transtheoretical Model of Change in that participants in each Stage of Change will receive the intervention that matches the Stage of Change they would be in.

A 12-week interval would be considered between administering the intervention and posttest 1 and the same interval would be used between posttest 1 and posttest 2.

Enrollment: 144 estimated patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 15 to 20 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• High school male students who do not experience any psychiatric-mental disorder.

Exclusion criteria

• High school male students who experience any psychiatric-mental disorder.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Sequential Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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144 participants in 5 patient groups

Precontemplation, Contemplation, Preparation, Action, and Maintenance-based intervention

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention that would consider the Processes of Change that people use when they would be in the Precontemplation Stage of Change.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Stage-matched interventions

Contemplation-based intervention

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention that would consider the Processes of Change that people use when they would be in the Contemplation Stage of Change.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Stage-matched interventions

Preparation-based intervention

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention that would consider the Processes of Change that people use when they would be in the Preparation Stage of Change.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Stage-matched interventions

Action-based intervention

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention that would consider the Processes of Change that people use when they would be in the Action Stage of Change.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Stage-matched interventions

Maintenance-based intervention

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention that would consider the Processes of Change that people use when they would be in the Maintenance Stage of Change.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Stage-matched interventions