The goal of this clinical trial is to assess the effectiveness of an intervention based on the Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills (IMB) model to treat smartphone addiction in college students. The main questions it aims to answer are: Does the IMB model-based intervention via WeChat public accounts significantly reduce smartphone addiction scores compared to a control group? Does the intervention lead to an increase in motivation and behavioral skills scores among participants? Researchers will compare the intervention group, which receives IMB-enhanced content through WeChat public accounts, to the control group, which maintains regular activities, to see if there are significant improvements in addiction scores, motivation, and behavioral skills in the intervention group. Participants will: Be stratified by gender and randomly assigned to either the intervention or control group. The intervention group will receive information, motivation, and behavioral skills enhancement via WeChat public accounts over a period of 6 weeks. Both groups will be assessed for smartphone addiction scores, information-motivation-behavioral skills scores, average daily smartphone use time, sleep duration, sleep quality, and somatic and psychological symptoms before and after the intervention.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
210
The intervention group would undergo a six-week intervention program. Researchers promoted a public WeChat account to the intervention group, and participants received the intervention by following the account. They automatically received pushed articles or videos, providing them with relevant knowledge about overcoming smartphone addiction. Furthermore, they would be motivated to quit their addiction through real-life cases of smartphone addiction etc., in addition to some practical skills of overcoming.
Anhui Medical University
Hefei, Anhui, China
smartphone addiction scale scores
Smartphone Addiction Scale: The Chinese version of the Smartphone Addiction Scale - Short Version (SAS-SV), containing 10 items. Minimum score of 6, Maximum score of 60, higher scores indicate more severe smartphone addiction .
Time frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 6 weeks]
average daily smartphone use time
assessed as, "Average daily cell phone use in the last month."
Time frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 6 weeks
sleep duration
assessed as, "Actual sleep time per night for the last 1 month."
Time frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 6 weeks]
sleep quality
assessed as, "How would you rate your sleep quality in the past month
Time frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 6 weeks]
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