Mindfulness-Based Technology Addiction Program (MBTAP)

Mersin University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Technology Addiction; Smartphone Addiction; Internet Addiction

Treatments: Other: Mindfulness-Based Technology Addiction Program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07320547

ÇankırıKU

Details and patient eligibility

About

In this study, between 1 September 2023-31 January 2024, who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria, a total of 128 high school students in a state high school in Çankırı.

Enrollment: 128 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 14 to 18 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• being a first-year high school student studying at state high school in a central city of Türkiye
• both student and parent agreeing to participate in the study and 3) not having communication barrier

Exclusion criteria

• having an illness that would prevent participation in the study
• withdrawing from the research voluntarily
• not attending at least one of the sessions
• not receiving other psychological training at the time of the research
• not receiving mindfulness-based mediation experience
• incomplete answering the instruments.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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128 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental group

Experimental group

Description:

Brief Self-compassion Program will be held in a face-to-face school environment for the high school students in the experimental group. The MBTAP was carried out face-to-face in the classroom for the high school students in the intervention group. The goal of the program was to improve high school students' mindfulness levels, and decrease internet and smartphone additions' levels. This program was developed based on the concepts of mindfulness. The MBTAP was created in a certain flow based on the awekening to mindfulness (2 sessions), breath, body and mind (2 sessions), mindfulness and stress (2 sessions) and power of the compassion. There are 8 sessions lasting four weeks in the program and the frequency of sessions is 2 sessions per week and each session lasts approximately 50 minutes. The training program will be applied to 64 high school students in the experimental group.

Treatment:

Other: Mindfulness-Based Technology Addiction Program

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

There will be no training or intervention.