NCT05897359

The Use of Nursing-students-led bCBTMI

The Use of Nursing-students-led bCBTMI for Internet Addiction Among Adolescents: a Feasibility Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 13 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Internet Addiction

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	bCBTMI	This experimental group involves 4 weekly 30-45 minute sessions using the brief CBT and the brief MI models by trained nursing students.
BEHAVIORAL	Control	The control group will receive health talks about internet addiction consequences and impacts on young people by nursing students who are not involved in the intervention group to mimic the time and attention spent on the intervention group. These health talks are considered routine care for IA health promotion.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-09-01
• Primary completion: 2024-05-01
• Completion: 2024-05-01
• First posted: 2023-06-09
• Last updated: 2023-06-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Hong Kong