Clinical trial NCT05384548: Can You Reduce Problematic Smartphone Use Through a Group Intervention: A Single Case Experimental Design
Official title: Can You Reduce Problematic Smartphone Use Through a Group Intervention: A Single Case Experimental Design
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: TERMINATED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Addiction, Smartphone
Lead sponsor: Canterbury Christ Church University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-05-20
Enrollment: 7
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: This study will develop and conduct an initial, single-case, mixed-methods evaluation of a brief group intervention for mild and moderate problematic phone use.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

-Self-identifies as struggling with problematic smart phone use

Exclusion Criteria:

* Actively experiencing suicidal or self-injurious thoughts, or have experienced these within the past year
* Already in a psychological therapy/intervention
* Planning a change of psychotropic medication during the research project.
* No access to video calling and/or slow internet connection speed
* A mental health condition that is not currently well managed/stable and therefore other interventions are likely to be more appropriate
* Does not own a smartphone that can record screen time
* Is not living in the UK, with access to services within the UK

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change from pre-intervention (week 1) at post-intervention (week 10) on the Smartphone Addiction Scale -Short Version (SAS-SV).
timeFrame: Post-intervention (week 10)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change from pre-intervention (week 1) at follow-up (week 18) on the Smartphone Addiction Scale -Short Version (SAS-SV).
timeFrame: Follow-up (week 18)
measure: Change from pre-intervention (week 1) at post-intervention (week 10) on the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale -21 item version (DASS-21).
timeFrame: Post-intervention (week 10)
measure: Change from pre-intervention (week 1) at follow-up (week 18) on the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale -21 item version (DASS-21).
timeFrame: Follow-up (week 18)
measure: Change from pre-intervention (week 1) at post-intervention (week 10) on the Multicultural Quality of Life Index.
timeFrame: Post-intervention (week 10)
measure: Change from pre-intervention (week 1) at follow-up (week 18) on the Multicultural Quality of Life Index.
timeFrame: Follow-up (week 18)
measure: Change in daily subjective units of distress from the baseline period (weeks 0 and 1) to the intervention period (weeks 2 to 9)
timeFrame: Intervention period (weeks 2 to 9)
measure: Change in daily subjective units of distress from the baseline period (weeks 0 and 1) to the follow-up period (weeks 17 to 18)
timeFrame: Follow-up period (weeks 17 to 18)
measure: Change in daily phone use from the baseline period (weeks 0 and 1) to the intervention period (weeks 2 to 9)
timeFrame: Intervention period (weeks 2 to 9)
measure: Change in daily phone use from the baseline period (weeks 0 and 1) to the follow-up period (weeks 17 to 18)
timeFrame: Follow-up period (weeks 17 to 18)
Other outcomes:
measure: Qualitative interview
timeFrame: Week 18
Locations:
city: Tunbridge Wells
country: United Kingdom
facility: Salomons Institute, Canterbury Christ Church University
state: Kent
Study officials:
affiliation: Canterbury Christ Church University
name: Brett Hayes
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Canterbury Christ Church University
name: Fergal Jones
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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