减少智能手机使用和改善心理健康的自我选择与指定的目标:随机对照试验的协议
Kamal Kant Sharma1, Jeeva Somasundaram2, Ashish Sachdeva1
1Max Institute of Healthcare Management, Indian School of Business, Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, Punjab, India.
JMIR research protocols
|May 6, 2024
概括
货币激励和目标选择可能会减少智能手机屏幕时间. 这项研究测试了自我选择与指定的目标,以改善印度学生和员工的心理健康.
科学领域:
- 数字健康数字健康
- 行为经济学是一种行为经济学.
- 心理健康研究 心理健康研究
背景情况:
- 全球越来越多的智能手机使用,特别是在印度,与负面的健康结果有关.
- 过度的屏幕时间与睡眠障碍,身体和心理健康不佳以及幸福感降低有关.
- 对于减少屏幕时间的激励结构的比较有效性尚不清楚.
研究的目的:
- 评估货币激励对减少移动屏幕时间的影响.
- 为了比较自我选择与分配的屏幕时间减少目标的有效性.
- 评估后续对参与者的心理健康的影响.
主要方法:
- 一个为期12周的,三臂随机对照试验,涉及印度学生和雇员.
- 参与者被分配到自我选择的目标,分配的目标或对照组.
- 在干预组中,为实现每日屏幕时间减少目标提供了货币激励.
主要成果:
- 研究干预目前正在进行中,数据收集将于2023年11月完成.
- 预计结果将于2024年初公布.
- 研究设计允许分析激励措施的有效性和目标选择的影响.
结论:
- 货币激励措施在减少移动屏幕时间方面可能是有效的.
- 与指定的目标相比,自我选择的目标可以提供一种可行的行为改变策略.
- 进一步的研究将阐明对工作专业人员和学生的具体好处.
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