The Relationship Among Electroencephalography,Skin Conductance Response,Heart Rate Variability and Mental Health Among Smartphone Users After Receiving Texting or Calling

Kaohsiung Medical University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Smartphone Users, Smartphone Addiction, Anxiety, and Skin Conductance

Treatments: Device: social media stimuli (Line app)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04133597

KMUHIRB-E(I)-20170016

Details and patient eligibility

About

The number of smartphone users in Taiwan continues to increase exponentially. Smartphone addiction tends to not only disrupt the ability of social communication but cause physical and psychological problems as well. This study examined the relationship among skin conductance, electroencephalography, heart rate variability (HRV), social interaction anxiety and smartphone addiction among Line apps users, and we also tried to identify associated factors for further interventions.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

(a) were older than 20 years of age and (b) used a smartphone with internet and Line app.

Exclusion criteria

the participants were those who (a) had alcoholism or drug dependence; (b) had any pre-existing major mental disorders; (c) had history of brain injury; and (d) had palmar hyperhidrosis.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 1 patient group

Interventional

Experimental group

Description:

Two experimental steps: baseline skin conductance measurements (step 1, three minutes) and measurements of SC after social media stimulation with Line messages or calls (step 2, three minutes). With a 5-minute rest period after these two steps completed, then each participant fill out questionnaires for assessing anxiety and problematic smartphone use.

Treatment:

Device: social media stimuli (Line app)