The Use of Nursing-students-led bCBTMI

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Internet Addiction

Treatments: Behavioral: bCBTMI; Behavioral: Control

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05897359

bCBTMI-Adolescents

Details and patient eligibility

About

The use of the internet is very popular in adolescence. Notwithstanding the benefits from the internet, many users are addicted to the internet and develop problematic behaviours which are regarded as "Internet addiction" (IA). Trained nursing students, who are the future nurses and well-equipped with basic health knowledge, as the interventionists to deliver a bCBTMI intervention to the eligible subjects. The result of this study is expected to provide evidence of the feasibility and effectiveness of training nursing students to conduct bCBTMI in Hong Kong Chinese adolescents with IA for a definitive RCT.

Full description

A two-arm, parallel-group, feasibility cluster randomized controlled trial will be conducted. 60 adolescents with IA will be recruited from secondary schools in Hong Kong. Participants in the intervention group will receive 4 weekly 30-45 minute sessions using the brief CBT and the brief MI models by nursing students. Control group participants will receive routine care for IA.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 13 to 17 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Aged 13 to 17
• Studying Forms 2 to 4
• Classified as IA by the Chinese version of Young's 10-item Internet Addiction Test (IAT)
• Can communicate in Cantonese and read Chinese.

Exclusion criteria

• With physical or cognitive impairment and learning problems as identified from the medical records

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

bCBTMI

Experimental group

Description:

bCBTMI care for IA.

Treatment:

Behavioral: bCBTMI

Control

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Routine care for IA.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Control