The Impact of Phone Use on Everyday Outcomes

NCT ID: NCT04303637

Last Updated: 2020-03-11

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Total Enrollment

1000 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2019-03-25

Study Completion Date

2021-06-10

Brief Summary

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Participants will download a phone-tracking app for a week to track phone usage, providing objective data on usage patterns. Quantitative tasks and questionnaires will also be carried out before and after the tracking period.

Detailed Description

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A notable shortcoming of existing mobile phone research is that 'phone use' has almost exclusively been measured through subjective reports - by simply asking respondents how much time they spend on their mobile phones each day. This operational definition, however, is a major shortcoming as phone use is difficult to track - and is thus likely to be highly inaccurate.

To address this gap, the investigators describe in this proposal a first step to characterize phone usage in an objective manner - by asking adolescents to download a phone-tracking app for a week. This circumvents measurement errors inherent to self-reports, and allows us to probe: (1) how accurate adolescents' estimates are of their own phone usage, and (2) whether objective phone usage predicts any cognitive, socio-emotional, or physical outcomes. The completion of this study will represent an important step forward in the development of empirically-driven guidelines on phone use amongst adolescents.

Conditions

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Obesity Sleep Depression Anxiety

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Study Groups

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High school student

13-18 year old students enrolled in schools within Singapore.

Phone use

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Objective and subjective reports of smartphone use (e.g., number of hours, number of pick-ups, how phones are used)

Interventions

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Phone use

Objective and subjective reports of smartphone use (e.g., number of hours, number of pick-ups, how phones are used)

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Owns a smartphone

Exclusion Criteria

* Parents not willing to give consent
* History of medical or psychiatric disorder
* History of motion sickness, dizziness or epilepsy
Minimum Eligible Age

13 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Yale-NUS College

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Jean Liu

Assistant Professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Jean Liu, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Yale-NUS College

Locations

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Yale-NUS College

Singapore, , Singapore

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Singapore

Central Contacts

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Jean Liu, PhD

Role: CONTACT

Facility Contacts

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Jean Liu, PhD

Role: primary

Other Identifiers

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S-18-213

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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