Educational Intervention to Prevent Smartphone Addiction Among Adolescent (smart phone)

Norther Private Collage of Nursing

Status: Completed

Conditions: Prevention; Smart Phone Addiction

Treatments: Other: class mate teaching subjects only

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07185217

smart phone addiction

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study aimed to evaluate the effect of nurse led educational intervention on preventing smart phone addiction among adolescent, participants were adolescents studying in prep school either in the first and second grades and their age ranged from 13- 16.

Full description

The research hypothesis include adolescents who receive the nurse-led smartphone addiction prevention intervention based on health belief model in study group exhibit lower smartphone addiction level than those in control group.

-Adolescents who receive the nurse-led smartphone addiction prevention intervention based on health belief model had higher knowledge regarding smartphone addiction than those in control group.

Participants were divided into two groups (study and control). Both groups were asked to fill out all questionnaires before and after the study using the same tools. In the control group, adolescents receives routine care, and educational classes' only. Participants were asked to answer a post-test using the same pre-test questionnaires. And the study group were divided into small training groups with 15-20 participants and divided into small groups . Six sessions were needed for each group each session took about 1- 2hrs.

Enrollment: 200 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 13 to 16 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• their ages ranged between (13-16 years), and get acceptance from their parents to participate in the study.

Exclusion criteria

• students who unwilling to participates
• more than 16 years
• their parents refuse to participates

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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200 participants in 2 patient groups

education intervention group

Active Comparator group

Description:

the study group were divided into small groups 15-20 students. six session were needed for each group ,First session: it provide an overview of the educational intervention to enhance knowledge about smart phone addiction, Second session: it based on perceived susceptibility of the HBM , Third session: This session implemented based on the construct of perceived severity of HBM , Forth session: This session implemented based on the perceived benefits, perceived barriers, and perceived self-efficacy of the HBM. Fifth session: This session implemented based on cues to action, Session six: Three months after the fifth session, the post-intervention visit took place.

Treatment:

Other: class mate teaching subjects only

control group

Sham Comparator group

Description:

receive education classmate

Treatment:

Other: class mate teaching subjects only