Can You Reduce Problematic Smartphone Use Through a Group Intervention: A Single Case Experimental Design

Canterbury Christ Church University

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Addiction, Smartphone

Treatments: Behavioral: Problematic smart phone use course

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05384548

2020_Brett_Hayes_MRP

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will develop and conduct an initial, single-case, mixed-methods evaluation of a brief group intervention for mild and moderate problematic phone use.

Enrollment: 7 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

-Self-identifies as struggling with problematic smart phone use

Exclusion criteria

• Actively experiencing suicidal or self-injurious thoughts, or have experienced these within the past year
• Already in a psychological therapy/intervention
• Planning a change of psychotropic medication during the research project.
• No access to video calling and/or slow internet connection speed
• A mental health condition that is not currently well managed/stable and therefore other interventions are likely to be more appropriate
• Does not own a smartphone that can record screen time
• Is not living in the UK, with access to services within the UK

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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7 participants in 1 patient group

Problematic smart phone use course

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Problematic smart phone use course