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Front. Psychiatry
Sec. Addictive Disorders
Volume 14 - 2023 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1245536
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Addictive Behaviors Among Youth and Adolescents in the Digital Age

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An app-based training for adolescents with problematic digital-media use and their parents (Res@t digital): Protocol for a cluster-randomized clinical trial

Kerstin Paschke1* Silke Diestelkamp1 Antonia Zapf2 Katharina Busch1 Nicolas Arnaud1 Alexander Prehn-Kristensen3 Olaf Reis4 Maria Stark2 Jan-Ole Cloes1 Anna-Lena Schulz1 Hannah Brauer3 Thomas Krömer5 Rainer Thomasius1
  • 1German Center for Addiction Research in Childhood and Adolescence, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
  • 2Institute of Medical Biometry and Epidemiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
  • 3Institute of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Center for Integrative Psychiatry, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
  • 4Department of Psychiatry, Neurology, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy in Childhood and Adolescence, University Hospital Rostock, Germany
  • 5Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany

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Background: Digital media-use disorders (DMUD) in adolescents are a rising phenomenon associated with psychological distress, comorbid mental disorders, and high burden on affected families. Since the ICD-11 introduced criteria for gaming disorder, these can now be transferred to describe additional DMUD associated with social media platforms and streaming services. Most evidence for effective treatments comes from cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). However, interventions based on theoretical models for adolescents and their parents are widely missing leading to a significant clinical gap.: Res@t digital (Resource-Strengthening Training for Adolescents with Problematic Digital-Media Use and their Parents) is the app-based translation of the first model-based digital intervention for adolescents with DMUD and their parents based on CBT.

Keywords: digital media-use disorders, e-health, Digital intervention, cognitive-behavioral therapy, adolescents, Parents

Received: 23 Jun 2023; Accepted: 29 Dec 2023.

Copyright: © 2023 Paschke, Diestelkamp, Zapf, Busch, Arnaud, Prehn-Kristensen, Reis, Stark, Cloes, Schulz, Brauer, Krömer and Thomasius. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence: Dr. Kerstin Paschke, German Center for Addiction Research in Childhood and Adolescence, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany