CBT Treatment for Internet Gaming Disorder
Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age16+
SponsorSahlgrenska University Hospital
About this trial
For most people, gaming is perceived as a positive activity. In some cases, however, gaming may turn into an addiction with consequences for the individual health, quality of life and everyday life. Today, there is a lack of evidence-based interventions to treat this condition, called Gaming Disorder (GD). This study will evaluate a new manual for treatment of GD, divided into a number of modules and based on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). The study is designed as a randomized controlled trial (RCT) and will be conducted at a clinic specialized in the treatment of gambling and gaming addiction.
Participants included in the study will be randomized to one of to groups. The intervention group will receive twelve weeks of individual CBT-treatment while participants allocated to the control group will be put on a twelve-week wait-list.
The hypothesis is that the manual based CBT treatment will result in a greater reduction in symptoms of criteria for GD.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Fulfilling 5 out of 9 criteria for IGD according to DSM V
≥ 16 years of age
Can read and speak Swedish fluidly.
Disqualifiers
Somatic or psychiatric disease that is contraindicating or severely complicates the implementation of the intervention (e.g., ongoing psychotic, manic or hypomanic episode or neuropsychiatric condition with severe disability)
Ongoing increased suicide risk that is considered to make it inappropriate for the patient to participate in the study (based on evaluation at the structured clinical interview)
have another ongoing psychological treatment with a content similar to that in the current study
plan to start such treatment during the XX weeks that the study is ongoing or has during the last three weeks started or changed medication for any psychiatric problem.
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- CBT-treatment
- Wait list control
Treatment groups
160 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groupsSponsors and collaborators
Source ClinicalTrials.gov