French Language Validation of Questionnaires for the Evaluation of Problematic Screen Use. (VALSCREEN)

The main objective of this research is to linguistically validate the Smartphone Addiction Scale, Nomophobia Questionnaire, The Problematic Use of Mobile Phones scale, Smartphone Addiction Proneness Scale, Digital Addiction Scale for Children, Gaming Motivation Scale and Problematic Media Use Measure in French so that they are conceptually equivalent to their original version.

Study Overview

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Conditions: Smartphone Addiction
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Questionnaires completion

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 40

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Alexandre BELLIER, MD, PhD; Phone Number: +33476637149; Email: abellier@chu-grenoble.fr

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 12 years to 25 years (Child, Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

University students, teenagers and parents of teenagers to test understanding of linguistic validation of questionnaires

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Inclusion criteria for the SAS, NMP-Q, SAPS questionnaires
• University students over 18 years of age Inclusion criteria for the GAMS questionnaire
• University students over 18 years of age
• Video game players (at least one video game session in the past two weeks) Inclusion criteria for the PUMP and DASC questionnaires
• Adolescents (12-17 years old) Inclusion criteria for the PMUM-SF questionnaire
• Parents of adolescents (this can be parents of adolescents who answered the previous questions)
• Adolescents must have access to at least one screen: smartphone, computer, television, etc (even that of a parent)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Difficulties in understanding the French language
• Cognitive disorders
• Subject under guardianship or subject deprived of liberty
• Opposition to participation in the study

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Number of groups / cohorts

3

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort	Intervention / Treatment
students at the university	Behavioral: Questionnaires completion; Prospective, qualitative, observational, single-center study. 1) Two independent translations of the original questionnaires into French, 2) Back-translation of the consensus version into English by a professional bilingual translator 3) We will submit this final version to two opinion leaders in France. 4) Evaluation of the clarity, comprehension and acceptability of the translation of the questionnaire.
teenagers	Behavioral: Questionnaires completion; Prospective, qualitative, observational, single-center study. 1) Two independent translations of the original questionnaires into French, 2) Back-translation of the consensus version into English by a professional bilingual translator 3) We will submit this final version to two opinion leaders in France. 4) Evaluation of the clarity, comprehension and acceptability of the translation of the questionnaire.
parents of teenagers	Behavioral: Questionnaires completion; Prospective, qualitative, observational, single-center study. 1) Two independent translations of the original questionnaires into French, 2) Back-translation of the consensus version into English by a professional bilingual translator 3) We will submit this final version to two opinion leaders in France. 4) Evaluation of the clarity, comprehension and acceptability of the translation of the questionnaire.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
The process of validation will be performed by the forward/backward method (Epstein et al. 2015). The translation will be considered valid when the tests performed by the participants are considered successful.	through questionnaires completion, an average of 1 day

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
Evaluation of the internal consistency of the questionnaires after cross-cultural adaptation in French language	through questionnaires completion, an average of 1 day

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University Hospital, Grenoble

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Anticipated): November 1, 2022
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): December 1, 2022
• Study Completion (Anticipated): January 1, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: October 10, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 13, 2022
• First Posted (Actual): October 19, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): October 19, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 13, 2022
• Last Verified: October 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Compulsive Behavior; Impulsive Behavior; Behavior, Addictive; Internet Addiction Disorder
• Other Study ID Numbers: 2022-A01943-40

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No