Digital Game Addiction and Cyberbullying in Adolescents

Not Applicable

Active, not recruiting

• Conditions: Level of Digital Game Addiction; Level of Cyberbullying
• Interventions: Other: health education supported by motivational interviewing

• Registration Number: NCT06241989
• Lead Sponsor: Gazi University

Brief Summary

With the widespread use of technology and internet, digital game addiction and cyberbullying behaviors have increased among adolescents. Effective interventions are needed to prevent these behaviors. The aim of the study is to determine the effect of health education supported by motivational interviewing on digital game addiction and cyberbullying behaviors in adolescents. The research will be conducted with a randomized controlled trial design. The intervention group will receive six sessions of motivational interviewing-supported health education. Within the scope of the intervention, the first two sessions will be health education and the last four sessions will be motivational interviewing. It is planned that each session will be 35 minutes and the sessions will be implemented one week apart.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2024-01-26
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-02-01
• Study First Posted: 2024-02-05
• Study Start: 2024-04-15
• Primary Completion: 2024-05-31
• Status Verified: 2024-07
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-07-25
• Last Update Posted: 2024-07-26
• Study Completion: 2024-09-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 48

Inclusion Criteria

• Continuing 9th grade education
• Volunteering to participate in the research
• Being given permission by their families to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria

• Having problems understanding and speaking Turkish
• Visual-hearing impairment
• Having a neuropsychiatric disease

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intervention	health education supported by motivational interviewing	The intervention group will receive health education supported by motivational interviewing.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Digital Game Addiction Scale-7	twelfth week	The scale consists of a total of seven items and has a five-point Likert scale. The respondent is asked to choose one of the options "never= 1", "rarely= 2", "sometimes= 3", "often= 4", "always= 5". The lowest score that can be obtained from the scale is 7 and the highest score is 35. Two methods, monothetic and polythetic, are used to determine the gaming addiction status. In the monothetic method, if the individual who answers the questionnaire gives a score of 3 (sometimes) or more to all items, and in the polythetic method, if he/she gives a score of 3 (sometimes) or more to at least four of all items, he/she is characterized as a game addict.
Revised Cyberbullying Inventory-II	twelfth week	Participants answer the 10 items presented in two parallel forms twice on a 4-point scale (1 = never, 2 = once, 3 = two or three times, 4 = more than three times) to evaluate the cyberbullying behaviors they have done and been exposed to. The lowest score that can be obtained from the inventory is 10 and the highest score is 40. If the participants in the study mark any of the 10 items in the "I did it" section of the inventory with a score of at least "2 points = once" or higher, they are classified as "Cyber Bully". If the participants mark "1 point = Never" for all 10 items in the "I did it" section of the inventory, they are classified as "Never Cyberbullied".

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Gazi University; 🇹🇷 Ankara, Çankaya/Türkiye, Turkey