The Relationship Between Internet-use Behavior and Mental Health in Youth

NCT ID: NCT06284551

Last Updated: 2024-02-29

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION
• Total Enrollment: 50 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2022-02-08
• Study Completion Date: 2025-01-27

Brief Summary

Introduction: WHO defines youth as 15-24 years age group. At this stage, the brain is still under development, with high impulsiveness, being fond of stimulation and yearning for peer life. Compared with traditional interpersonal interaction, modern youths use the Internet as a main interpersonal interaction platform and conduct lots of leisure activities on the Internet. Poor cognitive emotion regulation strategies and personal traits may extend to new types of mental health issues; and are associated with depression, anxiety, suicidal/self-injurious behaviors, and cyberbullying.

Objectives: (1) To investigate whether emotion regulation strategies while facing stressful events are highly related to with cyberbullying, social media, and internet gaming disorder. (2) To investigate the relation between cyberbullying and depression, anxiety, suicide/self-injury among Taiwanese youths. (3) To investigate the probability of cyberbullying, social media addiction, and internet gaming disorder occurring at the same time.

Method: This cross-sectional study recruits cases of youths from 15 to 24 years old and collects data through questionnaires survey. In addition to collection of basic data, Internet using habits, and medical history, self-rated questionnaires include Suicide/Self-Injury Ideation Questionnaire, The Beck Depression Inventory 2nd Edition, Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children-Taiwan version, Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, Cyberbullying Questionnaire, and Internet Gaming Disorder Scale-Short Form.

Conditions

Mental Health Issue

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: CASE_CONTROL
• Study Time Perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL

Study Groups

Control Group

Healthy youths and adults aged 15-24 years old.

No interventions assigned to this group

Experimental Group

Youths and adults aged 15-24 years old with diagnosis of major depressive disorder, anxiety disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, or Adjustment disorder according to DSM-V.

No interventions assigned to this group

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

Control group

• Able to understand the content of all questionnaires
• Healthy youths aged 15-20 years old and adults aged 20-24 years old

Experimental group

• Able to understand the content of all questionnaires
• Youths aged 15-20 years old and adults aged 20-24 years old
• Diagnosed with major depressive disorder, anxiety disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, or Adjustment disorder according to DSM-V

Exclusion Criteria

• Illiterate or unable to understand the content of the questionnaires
• Diagnosed with organic brain injury, schizophrenia, or bipolar disorder according to DSM-V

• Minimum Eligible Age: 15 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 24 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

National Taiwan University Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Wei-ting Ko, MS

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

National Taiwan University Hospital

Locations

National Taiwan University Hospital

Taipei, , Taiwan

Countries

Taiwan

Other Identifiers

202111069RINB

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id