Prevalence of Internet Gaming Addiction in Adolescent

Adolescent Behavior Clinical Trial

Official title:

Prevalence of Internet Gaming Addiction in Adolescent

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04960254
• Other study ID #: internet gaming addiction
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Start date: December 6, 2021
• Est. completion date: October 1, 2022

Study information

• Verified date: November 2021
• Source: Assiut University
• Contact: gellan Ahmed
• Phone: +201093663928
• Email: gillankaram[@]aun.edu.eg
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Excessive problematic use of the internet has been a topic of discussion in the academic literature for many years and has gained more attention recently. The majority of those at risk are in early adulthood. Pathological internet use (PIU) is also termed internet addiction disorder (IAD), with both terms used to link internet use with addiction terminology.

Consistent with other psychiatric conditions such as depression symptoms, PIU prevalence rates among adolescents vary widely from as low as 0.3% to 38%. Likewise, PIU prevalence among college students (young adults) showed a wide variation ranging from 3% to 34%, worldwide. Nowadays, internet gaming addiction became a problematic issue in adolescent.

This is a case -control study, aimed to evaluate the prevalence and risk factors of internet gaming addiction among adolescents and its relationship with emotion regulation and comorbid psychiatric disorders.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 140
• Est. completion date: October 1, 2022
• Est. primary completion date: January 1, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 10 Years to 18 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria:

1. Both males and females were included.

2. Age ranges from 10- 18 years.

3. Willing of the parents or the caregivers to participate in the study.

Exclusion criteria:

• Children with intelligence quotient below 70.

• Children with history of substance use or psychiatric disorders.

• Children with medical or other neurological conditions.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Addictive Behavior
• Adolescent Behavior
• Behavior, Addictive

Intervention

Behavioral:
• internet gaming addiction
The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) parent : to asses behavioural change Socioeconomic Scale:It contains four main variables:1-The educational level of the father and mother.2-The occupation of the father and mother. 3-Total family income. 4-life style of the family. Emotional Avoidance Strategy Inventory for Adolescents (EASI):The EASIA is a 17-item (Kennedy & Ehrenreich-May 2017) measure assessing the use of emotionally avoidant strategies in adolescents. The internet gaming addiction scale : t is used to evaluate internet gaming addiction.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Egypt	Assiut University Hospital	Assiut

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Assiut University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Egypt, 

References & Publications (2)

Abdel-Salam DM, Alrowaili HI, Albedaiwi HK, Alessa AI, Alfayyadh HA. Prevalence of Internet addiction and its associated factors among female students at Jouf University, Saudi Arabia. J Egypt Public Health Assoc. 2019 Feb 26;94(1):12. doi: 10.1186/s42506 — View Citation

Ahmer Z, Tanzil S. Internet addiction among social networking sites users: Emerging mental health concern among medical undergraduates of Karachi. Pak J Med Sci. 2018 Nov-Dec;34(6):1473-1477. doi: 10.12669/pjms.346.15809. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	measure prevalence of internet gaming addiction in adolescent	by using internet gaming addiction scale that a cut-off of 32 was adequate to distinguish between disordered and non-disordered gamers	through study completion, an average of 1 year
Primary	measure possible risk factor of internet gaming addiction in adolescent	by using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) that higher score will be more disturbed	through study completion, an average of 1 year