The Relationship Between Internet-use Behavior and Mental Health in Youth
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- This is an observational study: the protocol does not assign a study treatment.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Mental Health Issue. Basic parameters: 15 years — 24 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Taiwan
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Overview
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.
Primary outcome measures
- Cyberbullying Questionnaire [Time frame: Up to 8 weeks]
Secondary outcome measures (1)
- Beck's Depression Inventory (BDI-II) [Time frame: Up to 2 weeks]
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
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Observational model
- Case-control
Study locations
Taiwan · 1 center
- National Taiwan University Hospital — Taipei
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06284551 · 202111069RINB