Counseling Intervention on Severe Nomophobia Among Health Care Providers

NCT ID: NCT06550557

Last Updated: 2024-08-13

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

22 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2023-01-28

Study Completion Date

2024-08-01

Brief Summary

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Assess the effect of a counseling intervention adopted from heath belief model merged with multiple smart phone-based action cues on the level of nomophobia among participants with severe nomophobia Assess the effect of a counseling intervention adopted from heath belief model merged with multiple smart phone-based action cues on the level of nomophobia among participants with severe nomophobia

Detailed Description

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In this study we seek to find if there is a relation between nomophobia level, self-esteem and mental health status, and discover whether a counseling intervention based on health belief model merged with smart phone-based action cues will decrease the level of nomophobia in participants with severe nomophobia.

through an intervention based on health belief model merged with multiple smart phone action cues employed on the intervention group during 3 counselling sessions

Conditions

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Specific Phobia, Other

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

pre intervention assessment of nomophobia score, mental health and self-esteem scores, then random allocation into intervention or control groups, intervention group received counselling sessions based on health belief model merged with smart phone action cues, post intervention scores were remeasured and compared to control group
Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants
participants into both the intervention and control groups didnot know of the other participants or the ongoing intervention nature

Study Groups

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counseling group

1. assessement of nomophobia score, mental health and self-esteem scores.
2. received 3 counselling sessions based on health belief model merged with smart phone action cues.
3. assessment of nomophobia score, mental health and self-esteem scores post intervention

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

counselling sessions

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

the counselling sessions were adopted from the health belief model with the cues of action depending on mobile phones as muting notifications, removing social media and using computers instead if possible.

control group

assessment of nomophobia score, mental health and self-esteem scores at the same time interval of the intervention group, pre and post intervention

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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counselling sessions

the counselling sessions were adopted from the health belief model with the cues of action depending on mobile phones as muting notifications, removing social media and using computers instead if possible.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Owning and actively using a smartphone.
* Understanding verbal English instructions.
* Willing to participate in a possible counseling session
* physicians currently working in kasr alainy hospital

Exclusion Criteria

* Having any diagnosed psychiatric disorder.
* Participants taking medications that could affect psychological status e.g: B blockers, mood stabilizers.
Minimum Eligible Age

24 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

37 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Cairo University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Sarah Ahmed Abdelmoaty

assistant lecturer of family medicine

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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sarah A Abdelmoaty, master

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Cairo University

Locations

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Faculty of Medicine- Cairo University

Cairo, , Egypt

Site Status

Countries

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Egypt

References

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Olson JA, Sandra DA, Chmoulevitch D, Raz A, Veissiere SPL. A Nudge-Based Intervention to Reduce Problematic Smartphone Use: Randomised Controlled Trial. Int J Ment Health Addict. 2022 May 17:1-23. doi: 10.1007/s11469-022-00826-w. Online ahead of print.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 35600564 (View on PubMed)

Notara V, Vagka E, Gnardellis C, Lagiou A. The Emerging Phenomenon of Nomophobia in Young Adults: A Systematic Review Study. Addict Health. 2021 Apr;13(2):120-136. doi: 10.22122/ahj.v13i2.309.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 34703533 (View on PubMed)

Wang Y, Wu AMS, Lau JTF. The health belief model and number of peers with internet addiction as inter-related factors of Internet addiction among secondary school students in Hong Kong. BMC Public Health. 2016 Mar 16;16:272. doi: 10.1186/s12889-016-2947-7.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 26983882 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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nomophobia (MD-425-2022)

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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