The Relationship Between Internet-use Behavior and Mental Health in Youth

National Taiwan University

Status: Invitation-only

Conditions: Mental Health Issue

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06284551

202111069RINB

Details and patient eligibility

About

Introduction: WHO defines youth as 15-24 years age group. At this stage, the brain is still under development, with high impulsiveness, being fond of stimulation and yearning for peer life. Compared with traditional interpersonal interaction, modern youths use the Internet as a main interpersonal interaction platform and conduct lots of leisure activities on the Internet. Poor cognitive emotion regulation strategies and personal traits may extend to new types of mental health issues; and are associated with depression, anxiety, suicidal/self-injurious behaviors, and cyberbullying.

Objectives: (1) To investigate whether emotion regulation strategies while facing stressful events are highly related to with cyberbullying, social media, and internet gaming disorder. (2) To investigate the relation between cyberbullying and depression, anxiety, suicide/self-injury among Taiwanese youths. (3) To investigate the probability of cyberbullying, social media addiction, and internet gaming disorder occurring at the same time.

Method: This cross-sectional study recruits cases of youths from 15 to 24 years old and collects data through questionnaires survey. In addition to collection of basic data, Internet using habits, and medical history, self-rated questionnaires include Suicide/Self-Injury Ideation Questionnaire, The Beck Depression Inventory 2nd Edition, Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children-Taiwan version, Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, Cyberbullying Questionnaire, and Internet Gaming Disorder Scale-Short Form.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 15 to 24 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Control group

• Able to understand the content of all questionnaires
• Healthy youths aged 15-20 years old and adults aged 20-24 years old

Experimental group

• Able to understand the content of all questionnaires
• Youths aged 15-20 years old and adults aged 20-24 years old
• Diagnosed with major depressive disorder, anxiety disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, or Adjustment disorder according to DSM-V

Exclusion criteria

• Illiterate or unable to understand the content of the questionnaires
• Diagnosed with organic brain injury, schizophrenia, or bipolar disorder according to DSM-V

Trial design

50 participants in 2 patient groups

Control Group

Description:

Healthy youths and adults aged 15-24 years old.

Experimental Group

Description:

Youths and adults aged 15-24 years old with diagnosis of major depressive disorder, anxiety disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, or Adjustment disorder according to DSM-V.