Counseling Intervention on Severe Nomophobia Among Health Care Providers

Cairo University (CU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Specific Phobia, Other

Treatments: Behavioral: counselling sessions

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06550557

nomophobia (MD-425-2022)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Assess the effect of a counseling intervention adopted from heath belief model merged with multiple smart phone-based action cues on the level of nomophobia among participants with severe nomophobia Assess the effect of a counseling intervention adopted from heath belief model merged with multiple smart phone-based action cues on the level of nomophobia among participants with severe nomophobia

Full description

In this study we seek to find if there is a relation between nomophobia level, self-esteem and mental health status, and discover whether a counseling intervention based on health belief model merged with smart phone-based action cues will decrease the level of nomophobia in participants with severe nomophobia.

through an intervention based on health belief model merged with multiple smart phone action cues employed on the intervention group during 3 counselling sessions

Enrollment: 22 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 24 to 37 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Owning and actively using a smartphone.
• Understanding verbal English instructions.
• Willing to participate in a possible counseling session
• physicians currently working in kasr alainy hospital

Exclusion criteria

• Having any diagnosed psychiatric disorder.
• Participants taking medications that could affect psychological status e.g: B blockers, mood stabilizers.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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22 participants in 2 patient groups

counseling group

Experimental group

Description:

1. assessement of nomophobia score, mental health and self-esteem scores. 2. received 3 counselling sessions based on health belief model merged with smart phone action cues. 3. assessment of nomophobia score, mental health and self-esteem scores post intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: counselling sessions

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

assessment of nomophobia score, mental health and self-esteem scores at the same time interval of the intervention group, pre and post intervention