Clinical trial NCT05097807: The Impact of Shallow Reading in Social Media
Official title: The Short-term and Long-term Impact of Word-picture-based and Short Video-based Shallow Reading Behavior in Social Media
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Social Media
Mental Health Disorder
Brain Imaging
Keywords: Social Media
Shallow reading
multimodal MRI
Brain network
Lead sponsor: Tang-Du Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2021-10-28
Enrollment: 300
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Four parallel group, each with a different intervention, of which two are shallow reading in social media (different type), the other two are common use of smartphone.
Primary purpose: BASIC_SCIENCE

Brief summary: Social media is pervasively used in our life. There is a research hypothesis that the information in social media is "shallow" and the long-term use of it will cause readers' addiction, insomnia, and inability to pay attention, thus reducing the efficiency of learning and working. However, there is no systematic study on the relationship between "shallow reading" in social media and attention, addiction, sleep quality, and other mental health. Therefore, the investigators intend to explore the effect of "shallow reading" in social media on mental health based on about 300 healthy subjects by conducting questionnaire, cognitive scale assessment, multi-mode MRI scanning and EEG monitoring. A cross-sectional study will be combined with a longitudinal study to explore the clinical characteristics its relationship to brain function.

Detailed description: With the development of social media such as "twitter", "Facebook" and "Microblog", "shallow reading" has gradually become the main way for people to obtain external information and relax. "Shallow reading" is characterized by incomplete and intermittent reading patterns, and readers often "dip into it" without thinking. There is a research hypothesis that the information in social media is "shallow" and the long-term use of it will cause readers' addiction, insomnia, and inability to pay attention, thus reducing the efficiency of learning and working. Some researchers even concern that "shallow reading" is destroying human beings' suspicion spirit, thinking ability and rational thinking which are based on writing and print culture. However, there is no systematic study on the relationship between "shallow reading" and attention or other mental health, not to mention its fMRI and EEG characteristics. Therefore, the investigators intend to explore the effect of "shallow reading" in social media on mental health based on about 300 healthy subjects by conducting questionnaire, cognitive scale assessment, multi-mode MRI scanning and EEG monitoring. A cross-sectional study will be combined with a longitudinal study to better understand both the short-term and long-term effect of "shallow reading" habit to the mental health and imaging characteristics. The collected indexes will be analyzed to explore the clinical characteristics of people with the habit of "shallow reading", and its relationship to mental health, brain imaging characteristics will finally be clarified.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Health volunteers
2. Capable to use smartphone

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Participants with a BMI greater than 30 or less than 18.5
2. Any use of cigarettes or alcohol
3. Color blindness
4. Left-handedness
5. With mental or psychiatric disorders
6. With cognitive impairment
7. Has a history of brain trauma
8. Has a family history of psychiatric disorders

Primary outcomes:
measure: Dynamic change of sustained attention from baseline state to after 2 hours of social media use
timeFrame: Baseline state and after 2 hours
measure: Dynamic change of selective attention from baseline state to after 2 hours of social media use
timeFrame: Baseline state and after 2 hours
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Cerebral blood flow changes from baseline state to after 2 hours of social media use
timeFrame: Baseline state and after 2 hours
measure: Brain functional connectivity changes from baseline state to after 2 hours of social media use
timeFrame: Baseline state and after 2 hours
Other outcomes:
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: Department of Radiology, Fourth Military Medical University
name: Bo Hu, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Department of Radiology, Fourth Military Medical University
name: YuTing Li, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Department of Radiology, Fourth Military Medical University
name: JingTing Sun, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Department of Radiology, Fourth Military Medical University
name: YuXuan Shang, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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