Emotion and Craving Regulation Among Individuals With Internet Gaming Disorders

Beijing Normal University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Internet Gaming Disorder; Emotion Regulation

Treatments: Procedure: Craving Regulation Task; Procedure: Emotion Regulation Task

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04110548

ER&CR_IGD

Details and patient eligibility

About

To investigate the potential deficits in emotion and craving regulation capacities of drug-naïve young adults with Internet gaming disorder as compared with healthy controls.

Full description

The purpose of this study is to examine the differences in young adults' capacities of utilizing cognitive appraisal versus mindfulness to regulate negative emotions and/or craving in response to negative affective stimuli or gaming cues, respectively. This project will be conducted in Beijing, China.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 30 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Internet gaming disorders (IGD):

1, DSM-5 recommended diagnosis of Internet gaming disorder :

1. the scores of the 9 items of DSM-5 recommended diagnosis for Internet gaming disorder ≥ 5.
2. engagement in popular Internet games (e.g. Arena of Valor, League of Legends and Player Unknown's Battle Grounds) for over 20 hours per week for a minimum of 12 months.

2, the scores of the Y-IAT(Young-Internet addiction Test) ≥ 50

Healthy controls (HCs): DSM-5 scores less than 5 and less than 20 hours gaming time per week.

Exclusion criteria

current or history of use of illegal substances and gambling; current or history of psychiatric or neurological illness; current use of psychotropic medications; being left-handed.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 3 patient groups

HCs on Emotion Regulation

Experimental group

Description:

Participants are screened using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition (DSM-5), Young's online Internet addiction test (YIAT), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), and so on. They are instructed to complete the emotion regulation task on the computer.

Treatment:

Procedure: Emotion Regulation Task

IGDs on Emotion Regulation

Experimental group

Description:

Participants are screened using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition (DSM-5), Young's online Internet addiction test (YIAT), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), and so on.They are instructed to complete the emotion regulation task on the computer.

Treatment:

Procedure: Emotion Regulation Task

IGDs on Craving Regulation

Experimental group

Description:

Participants are screened using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition (DSM-5), Young's online Internet addiction test (YIAT), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), and so on. They are instructed to complete the craving regulation task on the computer.

Treatment:

Procedure: Craving Regulation Task