Motivational Interview Based Intervention Program on Smartphone Addiction and Sleep Quality

Summary

Smartphones are the technological devices of our age that are constantly evolving and whose use is becoming more widespread day by day. Smartphones, which are preferred by almost everyone for reasons such as being easily portable, providing quick access to transactions, providing ease of use and sometimes as a status indicator, can pose a risk of addiction when used uncontrolled. Since young people are more intertwined with technology and use smartphones more, they are at greater risk of addiction and the problems that addiction can cause. Poor sleep quality is an important problem that can occur with smartphone addiction and negatively affects both daily life and the health of the individual. Smartphone addiction and the problems it causes are an important public health problem that threatens the whole society, especially young people. In solving this problem, it is among the duties of nurses to teach individuals healthy lifestyle behaviors instead of problematic behaviors. A road map is needed to facilitate the behavior change process. Transtheoretical Model (TTM) is widely used today to improve the behavior change process in the individual and to achieve the most effective health behavior change. TTM, which targets interventions appropriate to the individual's stage of change, is used as a guide that facilitates behavioral change. TTM is a model that contributes to change, accelerates it, and supports individuals considering change. In addition to TTM, another method that is more frequently used and contributes to change, especially in addicted individuals, is the "motivational interviewing" method. Motivational interviewing is very effective in gaining positive health behaviors and changing negative health behaviors and aims to reveal the individual's internal motivation. It is thought that the university years, which are an important period in terms of developing and maintaining health-protective and preventive behaviors, will both increase students' health responsibility and protect them from health-threatening behaviors with the healthy lifestyle behaviors acquired during this period. In line with all this information, this study was planned to determine the effect of the Transtheoretical model and motivational interview-based online intervention program on smartphone addiction and sleep quality levels in nursing students who are in the smartphone addiction risk group.

Conditions

• Smartphone Addiction
• Students, Nursing

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Motivational interviewing program based on transtheoretical model

It will be determined at which stage of change of the transtheoretic model the participants in the intervention group are. A varying number of motivational interviews will be held depending on the stage of change and a maximum of 6 motivational interviews. Those in the preparatory phase will be trained on smartphone addiction. Following completion of the motivational interviewing and training content, the study scales will be re-administered and the effectiveness of the motivational interviewing and training content will be evaluated by comparison with the baseline data.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Cumhuriyet University

  collaborator OTHER

• Mustafa Yumusak

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Mustafa Yumuşak · Aksaray University

• Semra Kocataş · Cumhuriyet University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

17 Years

Max Age

26 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2023-11-15

Primary Completion

2024-06-15

Completion

2024-12-31

Countries

• Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations