The Effect of Motivational Interviews on the Digital Game Addiction Levels of Nursing Students

Fidan Balkaya

Status: Completed

Conditions: Addiction; Motivational Interview

Treatments: Behavioral: Motivational interview in digital game addiction

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05457777

Sivas Cumhuriyet University

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to reveal the effect of motivational interviewing based on change stages on digital game addiction. This study will be conducted with a total of 72 individuals assigned by a randomization site from all nursing students who study at Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Faculty of Health Sciences, voluntarily participated in the study, and were found to be digital game addicts. These individuals will be equally distributed to the intervention and control groups. Personal Information Form, Stages of Change Questionnaire and Digital Game Addiction Scale will be distributed to individuals to answer. The obtained data will be analyzed statistically.

Full description

The aim of this study is to reveal the effect of motivational interviewing based on change stages on digital game addiction. This study will be conducted with a total of 72 individuals assigned by a randomization site from all nursing students who study at Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Faculty of Health Sciences, voluntarily participated in the study, and were found to be digital game addicts. These individuals will be equally distributed to the intervention and control groups. Each group will contain 36 participants. the participants in intervention group will take motivational interventions while the individuals who have digital game addiction in control group will not take this application. Personal Information Form, Stages of Change Questionnaire and Digital Game Addiction Scale will be distributed to individuals to answer. The obtained data will be analyzed statistically.

Enrollment: 72 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Nursing students who:

• agree to participate in the study
• are over 18 years
• have game addiction
• agree to participate in the negotiations

Exclusion criteria

Individuals who:

• do not agree to participate in the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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72 participants in 2 patient groups

Motivational interview group

Experimental group

Description:

Motivational interviews will be held to the participants with digital game addiction in this group.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Motivational interview in digital game addiction

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

This group will be control group and any motivational interviews will not be held to the participants with digital game addiction in this group.