PeerScreen Trial - Reducing Screen Media Use in Peer-groups of Young People
Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age13-24
SponsorUniversity of Southern Denmark
About this trial
The purpose of the PeerScreen trial is to investigate whether reducing screen media use affects mental health, social interaction, sleep, physical activity, heart rate variability, and behavioral patterns in young people aged 13 to 24 years. The primary question the trial aims to answer is:
Does reducing screen media use over a 4-week period improve mental health among young people?
Researchers will compare a screen media reduction intervention with a control condition in which participants continue their usual screen media use to determine whether reducing screen media use leads to improvements in mental health.
Participants will:
* be allocated to either a 4-week screen media reduction intervention or a control condition * complete a study protocol including questionnaire-based assessments, daily self-reports, and objective monitoring of screen media use, sleep, physical activity, heart rate variability, social interactions, and geolocation
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Participants must have at least 2 hours/day of self-reported smartphone use during leisure time (data from the survey study)
Members of each participant's household must be willing to support the participant in adhering to the prescribed intervention (data from recruitment interview)
Participants must have enough discretionary leisure time for possible in-person activities on a weekly basis throughout the study period (verified at the information meeting)
Disqualifiers
Participants with no smartphone will be excluded (data from recruitment interview)
Participants with no social media profiles will be excluded (data from recruitment interview)
Participants who currently participate in other experimental studies will be excluded (data from recruitment interview)
Participants who have been hospitalized or prescribed sick leave within the past 3 months due to a mental illness will be excluded (data from recruitment interview)
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Screen media reduction
Treatment groups
240 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groupsLocations
Sponsors and collaborators
Source ClinicalTrials.gov