Effect of Distress Tolerance Training on Problematic Internet Use and Psychological Wellbeing Among Faculty Nursing Students

Alexandria University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Nurse's Role

Treatments: Behavioral: Distress tolerance training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05711368

IRB00013620/9/2022/48

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Internet is a social environment as well as a tool. In this digital environment, where students interact with each other, live, and generally comprehend their cultures, college students learn information. The Internet has become essential to college students' daily lives and education. The World Health Organization (WHO) has cautioned that increased screen usage and gaming may occur during the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to this, there is an increased chance of Internet and gaming addiction, leading to more distress and concern for students' psychological well-being. Therefore, university students needed an intervention program to overcome these problems. The researchers in the present study will use distress tolerance. Distress tolerance (DT) is defined as one's ability to continue engaging in goal-directed behavior in the face of emotional, cognitive, or physical discomfort. Eventually, the present study aimed to The present study aims to:

Assess the impact of distress tolerance training on problematic internet use and psychological wellbeing among university nursing students.

Research Hypothesis:

Nursing students who receive distress tolerance training will exhibit lower problematic internet use and better psychological wellbeing than those who didn't receive it

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 30 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Students that are not participating in any other type of psychotherapy.
• Students who scored high on Problematic Internet Use Questionnaire (PIU).

Exclusion criteria

• Students who have a history of mental illness.
• students who are more than 30 years old.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

interventional group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Nursing students who participated in distress tolerance training session

Treatment:

Behavioral: Distress tolerance training

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Nursing students not participating in distress tolerance training session