The Effect of Art-Based Nursing Intervention Helping to Develop Healthy Digital Habits on Digital Addiction, Cyberbullying and Self-Efficacy in Adolescents

Summary

In today's world where digital technologies are integrated into every aspect of life, adolescents' unhealthy and uncontrolled use of digital media causes important psychosocial problems such as digital addiction and cyberbullying. This research aims to examine the effects of an art-based nursing intervention program in order to help adolescents born into the digital world gain healthy digital habits. The art-based nursing intervention program that helps gain healthy digital habits aims to increase adolescents' expressive expression skills, develop their skills in coping with challenging situations in the digital environment and strengthen their self-efficacy levels through creative art activities. The research is a randomized controlled trial designed as an experimental type, pre-test-post-test design. The research will be carried out in Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin Secondary School in Karatay district of Konya province. The sample group was determined as a total of 64 adolescents, 32 intervention and 32 control. Adolescents will be randomly assigned to the intervention and control groups. The pre-test data of the intervention and control groups were collected before the program started; The post-test data will be collected face-to-face by the researcher after the program is completed using the Personal Information Form, Digital Addiction Scale for Children, Revised Cyberbullying Scale (YSZE-II) and Self-Efficacy Scale for Children. It is expected that the digital addiction and cyberbullying levels of adolescents who are applied the art-based nursing intervention program that helps them gain healthy digital habits will be lower than the control group, and their self-efficacy levels will be higher than the control group. It is anticipated that the findings to be obtained as a result of the research will enable the development of creative and holistic intervention approaches that will increase the functionality of school health nurses against the risks posed by the digital age on young people. It is also thought that it can provide an evidence-based basis for the usability of art-based interdisciplinary practices in the field.

Conditions

• Digital Addiction
• Art Therapy
• Cyberbullying
• Self Efficacy
• Adolescence

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

An Arts-Based Nursing Intervention Program to Help Develop Healthy Digital Habits

Session Time: Arts-Based Nursing Intervention Program Sessions to Help Develop Healthy Digital Habits Week 1, Session 1 - Introductions and Group Agreement Formation (60 minutes) Week 2, Session 2 - Where Am I in the Digital World? (60 minutes) Week 3, Session 3 - Digital Addiction: Are You Connected or Addicted? (90 minutes) Week 4, Session 4 - Digital Addiction and Its Effects (90 minutes) Week 5, Session 5 - Digital Danger: Cyberbullying (90 minutes) Week 6, Session 6 - Discovering Strengths: The Relationship Between Digital Addiction and Self-Efficacy (90 minutes) Week 7, Session 7 - Digital Detox and Alternatives (90 minutes) Week 8, Session 8 - Evaluation and Closing (90 minutes)

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Selcuk University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Arzu Koçak Uyaroğlu, Associate Professor · Selcuk University

• Esra Ünal Çelik, Research Assistant · Selcuk University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

11 Years

Max Age

15 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2025-10-06

Primary Completion

2026-04-06

Completion

2026-12-31

Countries

• Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations