NCT04723498

Problematic Use of the Internet in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 300 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Susanne Walitza · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Pathological internet use is a blanket term for problematic behavior types (e.g. uncontrolled gaming, cyber pornography, cyber mobbing and excessive use of social media): all perpetrated through the internet. There is little documentation or research on interdependencies/interplay between problematic internet and/or media use and child-adolescent disturbances. Very few clinical examples of syndromes like attention deficiency/hyperactivity (ADHS), anxiety disorder or affective disturbances associated with pathological media/internet use, or gaming, are found in literature.

Conditions

• Substance Use Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	screening questionnaire	Fill in screening questionnaire

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-12-01
• Primary completion: 2026-03-01
• Completion: 2026-03-01
• First posted: 2021-01-25
• Last updated: 2025-05-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland