The Behavioral and Brain Mechanism of IGD

Beijing Normal University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Internet Gaming Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: Craving behavioral intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02550405

BeijingNormalU

Details and patient eligibility

About

This project aims to investigate whether anodal tDCS of dlPFC enhances cognitive regulation over craving an emotions.

Enrollment: 204 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18 to 30 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Inclusion criteria for IGDs were:

  1. a score of 67 or higher on the CIAS;
  2. engagement in Internet gaming for over 14 hours per week for a minimum of one year; and
  3. reporting of Internet gaming as their primary online activity;

• Inclusion criteria for HCs were:

  1. a score < 60 on the CIAS;
  2. never having spent more than 2 hours per week engaged in Internet gaming

Exclusion criteria

• for all participants:

  1. current or history of use of illegal substances and gambling;
  2. current or history of psychiatric or neurological illness; and
  3. current use of psychotropic medications

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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204 participants in 2 patient groups

Craving behavioral intervention

Experimental group

Description:

The craving behavioral intervention (CBI) was developed based on the framework of craving, combining with behavior intervention (Dong and Potenza, 2014), and conducted among individuals with IGD.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Craving behavioral intervention

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group were individuals with Internet gaming disorder who did not receive any intervention but were scanned twice with the similar interval period as experimental group.