Clinical trial NCT06284551: The Relationship Between Internet-use Behavior and Mental Health in Youth
Official title: The Relationship Between Internet-use Behavior and Mental Health in Youth
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION
Conditions: Mental Health Issue
Keywords: youth
cyberbullying
mental health
social media addiction
internet gaming disorder
suicide/self-injury
depression
anxiety
emotional regulation
Lead sponsor: National Taiwan University Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-02-29
Enrollment: 50
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 15
Maximum age (years): 24
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: CASE_CONTROL
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Aged from 15 to 24 years old. Healthy youths and adults recruited publicly. Patients with major depressive disorder, anxiety disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, or Adjustment disorder according to DSM-V recruited from outpatient clinic, emergency ward and day care ward of psychiatry department in National Taiwan University Hospital.

Brief summary: Introduction: WHO defines youth as 15-24 years age group. At this stage, the brain is still under development, with high impulsiveness, being fond of stimulation and yearning for peer life. Compared with traditional interpersonal interaction, modern youths use the Internet as a main interpersonal interaction platform and conduct lots of leisure activities on the Internet. Poor cognitive emotion regulation strategies and personal traits may extend to new types of mental health issues; and are associated with depression, anxiety, suicidal/self-injurious behaviors, and cyberbullying.

Objectives: (1) To investigate whether emotion regulation strategies while facing stressful events are highly related to with cyberbullying, social media, and internet gaming disorder. (2) To investigate the relation between cyberbullying and depression, anxiety, suicide/self-injury among Taiwanese youths. (3) To investigate the probability of cyberbullying, social media addiction, and internet gaming disorder occurring at the same time.

Method: This cross-sectional study recruits cases of youths from 15 to 24 years old and collects data through questionnaires survey. In addition to collection of basic data, Internet using habits, and medical history, self-rated questionnaires include Suicide/Self-Injury Ideation Questionnaire, The Beck Depression Inventory 2nd Edition, Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children-Taiwan version, Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, Cyberbullying Questionnaire, and Internet Gaming Disorder Scale-Short Form.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

Control group

* Able to understand the content of all questionnaires
* Healthy youths aged 15-20 years old and adults aged 20-24 years old

Experimental group

* Able to understand the content of all questionnaires
* Youths aged 15-20 years old and adults aged 20-24 years old
* Diagnosed with major depressive disorder, anxiety disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, or Adjustment disorder according to DSM-V

Exclusion Criteria:

* Illiterate or unable to understand the content of the questionnaires
* Diagnosed with organic brain injury, schizophrenia, or bipolar disorder according to DSM-V

Primary outcomes:
measure: Cyberbullying Questionnaire
timeFrame: Up to 8 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Beck's Depression Inventory (BDI-II)
timeFrame: Up to 2 weeks
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Taipei
country: Taiwan
facility: National Taiwan University Hospital
Study officials:
affiliation: National Taiwan University Hospital
name: Wei-ting Ko, MS
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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