SYSTEMATIC REVIEW article
Front. Psychiatry
Sec. Addictive Disorders
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1629251
The influence of different intervention measures on improving mobile phone addiction among teenagers or young adults: a systematic review and Network meta-analysis
Provisionally accepted
- 1Jishou University, Jishou, China
- 2Beijing Wuzi uinversity, Beijing, China
- 3Wuhan Sports university, Wuhan, China
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Objective: This study employed network meta-analysis to evaluate the impact of several exercise interventions on mobile phone addiction. The aim is to determine the most effective exercise intervention measures and provide a reference for future intervention measures to improve mobile phone addiction. Method: Systematically search for relevant literatures in domestic and foreign databases such as Web of Science, PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, China Knowledge, Wanfang, etc. We evaluated the risk of bias according to the revised Cochrane Randomized Trial Risk Tool and conducted traditional and web-based meta-analyses using Review Manager 5.3 and Stata 14.0. Result: Traditional Meta-results showed that all interventions were superior to the control group in improving mobile phone addiction (SMD= -1.38, 95%CI=-1.75, -1.01). Network meta-analysis shows that Badminton and Mindfulness-Based Therapy (MBT) have better improvement effects on mobile phone addiction among teenagers than other forms of exercise. Conclusion: All kinds of interventions have a significant impact on reducing mobile phone addiction. Badminton and MBT have more advantages in improving mobile phone addiction. However, due to the influence of the sample size and the quality of the included literature, it is recommended to further verify the results in the future.
Keywords: Mobile phone addiction, Teenagers, Young Adult, Network analysis, Meta
Received: 18 May 2025; Accepted: 18 Aug 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Li, Zhang, Zhang, Luo and Tao. 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: Ying Li, Jishou University, Jishou, China
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