The study aimed to evaluate the effect of nurse led educational intervention on preventing smart phone addiction among adolescent, participants were adolescents studying in prep school either in the first and second grades and their age ranged from 13- 16.
The research hypothesis include adolescents who receive the nurse-led smartphone addiction prevention intervention based on health belief model in study group exhibit lower smartphone addiction level than those in control group. -Adolescents who receive the nurse-led smartphone addiction prevention intervention based on health belief model had higher knowledge regarding smartphone addiction than those in control group. Participants were divided into two groups (study and control). Both groups were asked to fill out all questionnaires before and after the study using the same tools. In the control group, adolescents receives routine care, and educational classes' only. Participants were asked to answer a post-test using the same pre-test questionnaires. And the study group were divided into small training groups with 15-20 participants and divided into small groups . Six sessions were needed for each group each session took about 1- 2hrs.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
200
the participants receive educational classmate subjects.
Minia University Egypt
Minya, Minya Governorate, Egypt
smartphone addiction level
education intervention for prevention of smartphone addiction by using health belief model construct. by using smartphone addiction inventory , total score 104 mark, where high score indicate more smartphone addiction
Time frame: eight month
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