Counseling Intervention on Severe Nomophobia Among Health Care Providers

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Brief Summary: Assess the effect of a counseling intervention adopted from heath belief model merged with multiple smart phone-based action cues on the level of nomophobia among participants with severe nomophobia Assess the effect of a counseling intervention adopted from heath belief model merged with multiple smart phone-based action cues on the level of nomophobia among participants with severe nomophobia

Detailed Description: In this study we seek to find if there is a relation between nomophobia level, self-esteem and mental health status, and discover whether a counseling intervention based on health belief model merged with smart phone-based action cues will decrease the level of nomophobia in participants with severe nomophobia.

through an intervention based on health belief model merged with multiple smart phone action cues employed on the intervention group during 3 counselling sessions

Recruitment & Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria

Exclusion Criteria

Having any diagnosed psychiatric disorder.
Participants taking medications that could affect psychological status e.g: B blockers, mood stabilizers.

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
counseling group	counselling sessions	1. assessement of nomophobia score, mental health and self-esteem scores. 2. received 3 counselling sessions based on health belief model merged with smart phone action cues. 3. assessment of nomophobia score, mental health and self-esteem scores post intervention

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Compare the level of nomophobia between intervention and control group post intervention.	24 months	apply the counseling program and comparing the nomophobia score with the control group post intervention at same time frame, by using the nomophobia questionnaire developed by (Yildirim \& Correia, 2015) where severe nomophobes are those with a score above 100, comparing the post counseling sessions score between the intervention or the control group whether there was a significant decline in the nomophobia score.
Study the effect of the counseling program on severe nomophobia score among participants in the intervention group.	18 months	apply the counseling program and reassess the nomophobia level post-intervention by using the nomophobia questionnaire developed by Yildirim \& Correia (2015). With a total of twenty statements on the questionnaire, responses were recorded on a 7-point Likert scale, with 7 representing strongly agree and 1 representing strongly disagree. The lack of nomophobia corresponded to a score of 20. Mild nomophobia was indicated by questionnaire scores ranging from 21 ≤ to \< 60. On the other hand, scores between 60 and less than 100 suggested a moderate level of nomophobia, while scores between 100 and 140 indicated a severe level of nomophobia

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
correlation between nomophobia scores, self-esteem scores and mental health scores	18 months	pre and post intervention nomophobia scores using the nomophobia questionnaire were correlated to the self-esteem scores using state self esteem questionnaire with r value expressed to show whether the correlation is positive or negative and it's strength. as well the nomophobia scores using nomophobia questionnaire were correlated to the mental health scores using the mental health inventory questionnaire, where positive r indicates positive correlation and negative r indicates an inverse correlation, the strength of the correlation is determined by the value of r.

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