An interventional study of Motivational interview in digital game addiction in Motivational Interview and Addiction, sponsored by Fidan Balkaya. Completed at 2 sites in Turkey. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-09-06.
Sponsored by Fidan Balkaya · Not applicable, Interventional, and Other
The aim of this study is to reveal the effect of motivational interviewing based on change stages on digital game addiction. This study will be conducted with a total of 72 individuals assigned by a randomization site from all nursing students who study at Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Faculty of Health Sciences, voluntarily participated in the study, and were found to be digital game addicts. These individuals will be equally distributed to the intervention and control groups. Personal Information Form, Stages of Change Questionnaire and Digital Game Addiction Scale will be distributed to individuals to answer. The obtained data will be analyzed statistically.
The aim of this study is to reveal the effect of motivational interviewing based on change stages on digital game addiction. This study will be conducted with a total of 72 individuals assigned by a randomization site from all nursing students who study at Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Faculty of Health Sciences, voluntarily participated in the study, and were found to be digital game addicts. These individuals will be equally distributed to the intervention and control groups. Each group will contain 36 participants. the participants in intervention group will take motivational interventions while the individuals who have digital game addiction in control group will not take this application. Personal Information Form, Stages of Change Questionnaire and Digital Game Addiction Scale will be distributed to individuals to answer. The obtained data will be analyzed statistically.
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Nursing students who:
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Motivational interviews will be held to the participants with digital game addiction in this group.
Behavioral: Motivational interview in digital game addiction
This group will be control group and any motivational interviews will not be held to the participants with digital game addiction in this group.
Motivational interviewing, which is a technique developed by William Miller that aims to change behavior by revealing the contradiction of problematic behavior with the value judgments of the person and creating motivation by the counselor, will be applied to the individuals with digital game addiction.
Digital Game Addiction Scale
The scale has a five-point Likert type, single-factor structure and scores between 1-5 (1=never, 5=always) (range: 7-35). Evaluation is made using monoetic and polyethical diagnoses. According to the monothetic diagnosis, if the person scores three (sometimes) or more on seven of the seven items; According to the polythetic diagnosis, if at least four of the seven items score three (sometimes) or more, it is defined as "game addict".
Time frame: up to three months
Plan to share: No — Individual participant data (IPD) will not be available to other researchers, they will be kept secret.
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