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  • Behavioral Science
  • Digital Health

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  • Problematic social media use significantly interferes with daily life, including relationships, work, school, and sleep.
  • Currently, there is a lack of empirically supported treatments for problematic social media use.
  • The Internet Addiction Test (IAT) is a common screening tool for assessing problematic internet use.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To test a novel package intervention designed to reduce the daily duration of social media use.
  • To evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention on problematic social media use among undergraduate students identified as 'addicted'.

Main Methods:

  • A package intervention was administered to nine undergraduate students identified as having problematic social media use.
  • The intervention included contingency management, automated notifications for application usage, and guided selection of alternative activities.
  • Social media use duration was measured using a smartphone application.

Main Results:

  • All nine participants successfully reduced their daily social media use duration to target levels or below.
  • Eight out of nine participants demonstrated a reduction in their Internet Addiction Test scores post-intervention.
  • Participants did not exhibit an increase in time spent on their chosen alternative activities.

Conclusions:

  • The developed package intervention proved effective in reducing problematic social media use.
  • These findings suggest that social media use is amenable to behavioral treatment strategies.
  • This study highlights a promising avenue for addressing the growing issue of digital overuse.