The Impact of Shallow Reading in Social Media

Mental Health Disorder Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Short-term and Long-term Impact of Word-picture-based and Short Video-based Shallow Reading Behavior in Social Media

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05097807
• Other study ID #: 202103129
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: October 2022
• Est. completion date: June 2024

Study information

• Verified date: October 2022
• Source: Tang-Du Hospital
• Contact: Guangbin Cui, MD & PhD
• Phone: 86-29-84777863
• Email: cuigbtd[@]fmmu.edu.cn
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Social media is pervasively used in our life. There is a research hypothesis that the information in social media is "shallow" and the long-term use of it will cause readers' addiction, insomnia, and inability to pay attention, thus reducing the efficiency of learning and working. However, there is no systematic study on the relationship between "shallow reading" in social media and attention, addiction, sleep quality, and other mental health. Therefore, the investigators intend to explore the effect of "shallow reading" in social media on mental health based on about 300 healthy subjects by conducting questionnaire, cognitive scale assessment, multi-mode MRI scanning and EEG monitoring. A cross-sectional study will be combined with a longitudinal study to explore the clinical characteristics its relationship to brain function.

Description:

With the development of social media such as "twitter", "Facebook" and "Microblog", "shallow reading" has gradually become the main way for people to obtain external information and relax. "Shallow reading" is characterized by incomplete and intermittent reading patterns, and readers often "dip into it" without thinking. There is a research hypothesis that the information in social media is "shallow" and the long-term use of it will cause readers' addiction, insomnia, and inability to pay attention, thus reducing the efficiency of learning and working. Some researchers even concern that "shallow reading" is destroying human beings' suspicion spirit, thinking ability and rational thinking which are based on writing and print culture. However, there is no systematic study on the relationship between "shallow reading" and attention or other mental health, not to mention its fMRI and EEG characteristics. Therefore, the investigators intend to explore the effect of "shallow reading" in social media on mental health based on about 300 healthy subjects by conducting questionnaire, cognitive scale assessment, multi-mode MRI scanning and EEG monitoring. A cross-sectional study will be combined with a longitudinal study to better understand both the short-term and long-term effect of "shallow reading" habit to the mental health and imaging characteristics. The collected indexes will be analyzed to explore the clinical characteristics of people with the habit of "shallow reading", and its relationship to mental health, brain imaging characteristics will finally be clarified.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 300
• Est. completion date: June 2024
• Est. primary completion date: October 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Health volunteers

2. Capable to use smartphone

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Participants with a BMI greater than 30 or less than 18.5

2. Any use of cigarettes or alcohol

3. Color blindness

4. Left-handedness

5. With mental or psychiatric disorders

6. With cognitive impairment

7. Has a history of brain trauma

8. Has a family history of psychiatric disorders

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Brain Imaging
• Mental Disorders
• Mental Health Disorder
• Social Media

Intervention

Behavioral:
• smartphone related behaviors
Participants are required to watch specific contents on their own smartphones.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Tang-Du Hospital

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Dynamic change of sustained attention from baseline state to after 2 hours of social media use	Continuous performance test (CPT) will be used to assess the difference of sustained attention before and after social media use.; minimum: 0 maximum values: 1 Higher scores mean a better outcome.	Baseline state and after 2 hours
Primary	Dynamic change of selective attention from baseline state to after 2 hours of social media use	Stroop color word test (SCWT) will be used to assess the difference of selective attention before and after social media use.; minimum: 0 maximum values: 1 Higher scores mean a better outcome.	Baseline state and after 2 hours
Secondary	Cerebral blood flow changes from baseline state to after 2 hours of social media use	Artery spin labeling (ASL) in MRI will be used to assess the difference of cerebral blood flow before and after social media use.	Baseline state and after 2 hours
Secondary	Brain functional connectivity changes from baseline state to after 2 hours of social media use	Blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) in MRI will be used to assess the difference of functional connectivity before and after social media use.	Baseline state and after 2 hours