The Relationship Between Internet-use Behavior and Mental Health in Youth

• Conditions: Mental Health Issue

• Registration Number: NCT06284551
• Lead Sponsor: 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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2022-02-08
• Status Verified: 2024-02
• Primary Completion: 2024-02-15
• Study First Submitted: 2024-02-15
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-02-21
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-02-21
• Study First Posted: 2024-02-29
• Last Update Posted: 2024-02-29
• Study Completion: 2025-01-27

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 50

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

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Cyberbullying Questionnaire	Up to 8 weeks	Suppose the subject was the victimization/perpetrators of cyber-bullying or in the past 2 months, and the cyber-bullying-related experience and feeling in school. The main results were qualitative descriptions and would not apply to statistical analysis.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Beck's Depression Inventory (BDI-II)	Up to 2 weeks	The BDI-II is a 21-item self-report measure that taps major depression symptoms according to diagnostic criteria listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders. Items are summed to create a total score, with higher scores indicating higher levels of depression.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

National Taiwan University Hospital; 🇨🇳 Taipei, Taiwan