NCT02550405

The Behavioral and Brain Mechanism of IGD

The Behavioral and Brain Mechanism of Internet Gaming Disorder

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 204 (actual)
• Sponsor: Beijing Normal University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years – 30 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This project aims to investigate whether anodal tDCS of dlPFC enhances cognitive regulation over craving an emotions.

Conditions

• Internet Gaming Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Craving behavioral intervention	The CBI was given once a week for 6 weeks, conducted by four therapists. A pair of therapists was randomly assigned to a CBI+ group. Each session included 5 parts in 2.5-3 hours: warming-up exercise, discussion about the homework from the last session, main structured activity, brief summary, and the homework assignment. There were 6 sessions with each focused on a topic: recognize craving and its relationship with IGD; reduce craving through ameliorating the salience of cues and irrational beliefs, withdrawal symptoms and other negative affects; enhance self-monitoring and control for craving through time management training; relieve fulfillment of psychological needs through Internet use and attenuate the relation between craving and gaming behaviors through coping skill training

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-03-01
• Primary completion: 2014-12-01
• Completion: 2015-12-01
• First posted: 2015-09-15
• Last updated: 2018-12-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China