Clinical trial NCT06550557: Counseling Intervention on Severe Nomophobia Among Health Care Providers
Official title: The Effect of a Counseling Intervention on Severe Nomophobia Among Health Care Providers: Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Specific Phobia, Other
Keywords: nomophobia
health care providers
self-esteem
mental health
Lead sponsor: Cairo University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-08-13
Enrollment: 22
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 24
Maximum age (years): 37
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: pre intervention assessment of nomophobia score, mental health and self-esteem scores, then random allocation into intervention or control groups, intervention group received counselling sessions based on health belief model merged with smart phone action cues, post intervention scores were remeasured and compared to control group
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: Assess the effect of a counseling intervention adopted from heath belief model merged with multiple smart phone-based action cues on the level of nomophobia among participants with severe nomophobia Assess the effect of a counseling intervention adopted from heath belief model merged with multiple smart phone-based action cues on the level of nomophobia among participants with severe nomophobia

Detailed description: In this study we seek to find if there is a relation between nomophobia level, self-esteem and mental health status, and discover whether a counseling intervention based on health belief model merged with smart phone-based action cues will decrease the level of nomophobia in participants with severe nomophobia.

through an intervention based on health belief model merged with multiple smart phone action cues employed on the intervention group during 3 counselling sessions

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Owning and actively using a smartphone.
* Understanding verbal English instructions.
* Willing to participate in a possible counseling session
* physicians currently working in kasr alainy hospital

Exclusion Criteria:

* Having any diagnosed psychiatric disorder.
* Participants taking medications that could affect psychological status e.g: B blockers, mood stabilizers.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Study the effect of the counseling program on severe nomophobia score among participants in the intervention group.
timeFrame: 18 months
measure: Compare the level of nomophobia between intervention and control group post intervention.
timeFrame: 24 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: correlation between nomophobia scores, self-esteem scores and mental health scores
timeFrame: 18 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Cairo
country: Egypt
facility: Faculty of Medicine- Cairo University
Study officials:
affiliation: Cairo University
name: sarah A Abdelmoaty, master
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
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