Problematic Use of the Internet in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Susanne Walitza

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Substance Use Disorders

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: screening questionnaire

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04723498

KJPP 2020-00117

Details and patient eligibility

About

Pathological internet use is a blanket term for problematic behavior types (e.g. uncontrolled gaming, cyber pornography, cyber mobbing and excessive use of social media): all perpetrated through the internet. There is little documentation or research on interdependencies/interplay between problematic internet and/or media use and child-adolescent disturbances. Very few clinical examples of syndromes like attention deficiency/hyperactivity (ADHS), anxiety disorder or affective disturbances associated with pathological media/internet use, or gaming, are found in literature.

Enrollment: 300 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 18 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• male and female patients ages from 8 - 18 years
• All study participants or their legal representative have given written permission for their experiences to be documented in the study.

Exclusion criteria

• Inability to understand explanations and the questionnaire, whether linguistic or cognitative

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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300 participants in 1 patient group

Patients

Other group

Description:

male and female patients, handled on an ambulatory basis in Psychiatric University Clinics, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrythe ages from 8 - 18 years during the study

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: screening questionnaire