French Language Validation of Questionnaires for the Evaluation of Problematic Screen Use.

Smartphone Addiction Clinical Trial

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Official title:

French Language Validation of Questionnaires for the Evaluation of Problematic Screen Use.

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05585723
• Other study ID #: 2022-A01943-40
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Start date: November 1, 2022
• Est. completion date: January 1, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: October 2022
• Source: University Hospital, Grenoble
• Contact: Alexandre BELLIER, MD, PhD
• Phone: +33476637149
• Email: abellier[@]chu-grenoble.fr
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The main objective of this research is to linguistically validate the Smartphone Addiction Scale, Nomophobia Questionnaire, The Problematic Use of Mobile Phones scale, Smartphone Addiction Proneness Scale, Digital Addiction Scale for Children, Gaming Motivation Scale and Problematic Media Use Measure in French so that they are conceptually equivalent to their original version.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 40
• Est. completion date: January 1, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: December 1, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 12 Years to 25 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Inclusion criteria for the SAS, NMP-Q, SAPS questionnaires
• University students over 18 years of age Inclusion criteria for the GAMS questionnaire
• University students over 18 years of age
• Video game players (at least one video game session in the past two weeks) Inclusion criteria for the PUMP and DASC questionnaires
• Adolescents (12-17 years old) Inclusion criteria for the PMUM-SF questionnaire
• Parents of adolescents (this can be parents of adolescents who answered the previous questions)
• Adolescents must have access to at least one screen: smartphone, computer, television, etc (even that of a parent)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Difficulties in understanding the French language
• Cognitive disorders
• Subject under guardianship or subject deprived of liberty
• Opposition to participation in the study

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Smartphone Addiction

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Questionnaires completion
Prospective, qualitative, observational, single-center study. 1) Two independent translations of the original questionnaires into French, 2) Back-translation of the consensus version into English by a professional bilingual translator 3) We will submit this final version to two opinion leaders in France. 4) Evaluation of the clarity, comprehension and acceptability of the translation of the questionnaire.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
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Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University Hospital, Grenoble

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	The process of validation will be performed by the forward/backward method (Epstein et al. 2015). The translation will be considered valid when the tests performed by the participants are considered successful.		through questionnaires completion, an average of 1 day
Secondary	Evaluation of the internal consistency of the questionnaires after cross-cultural adaptation in French language		through questionnaires completion, an average of 1 day