Effect of Distress Tolerance Training on Problematic Internet Use and Psychological Wellbeing Among Faculty Nursing Students

January 25, 2023 updated by: ayman el-ashry, Alexandria University

The Effects of Distress Tolerance Training on Problematic Internet Use and Psychological Wellbeing Among Faculty Nursing Students

The Internet is a social environment as well as a tool. In this digital environment, where students interact with each other, live, and generally comprehend their cultures, college students learn information. The Internet has become essential to college students' daily lives and education. The World Health Organization (WHO) has cautioned that increased screen usage and gaming may occur during the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to this, there is an increased chance of Internet and gaming addiction, leading to more distress and concern for students' psychological well-being. Therefore, university students needed an intervention program to overcome these problems. The researchers in the present study will use distress tolerance. Distress tolerance (DT) is defined as one's ability to continue engaging in goal-directed behavior in the face of emotional, cognitive, or physical discomfort. Eventually, the present study aimed to The present study aims to:

Assess the impact of distress tolerance training on problematic internet use and psychological wellbeing among university nursing students.

Research Hypothesis:

Nursing students who receive distress tolerance training will exhibit lower problematic internet use and better psychological wellbeing than those who didn't receive it

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

60

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • Egypt
      • Alexandria, Egypt, 002
        • Faculty of Nursing

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years to 30 years (ADULT)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Students that are not participating in any other type of psychotherapy.
  • Students who scored high on Problematic Internet Use Questionnaire (PIU).

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Students who have a history of mental illness.
  • students who are more than 30 years old.

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
  • Allocation: RANDOMIZED
  • Interventional Model: PARALLEL
  • Masking: NONE

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
ACTIVE_COMPARATOR: interventional group
Nursing students who participated in distress tolerance training session
Behavioral: Distress tolerance training
It consisted of seven sessions. A 90-minute session will be conducted twice a week for four weeks. The first introductory session will be concerned with helping the student learn how to engage in distress tolerance training and define goals of distress tolerance. At the end of the 1st session, a written plan for every session (time, duration and setting) will be scheduled individually with each student.The next six training sessions will cover three core skills which comprised three sets: Crisis Survival Skills, the skills of Reality Acceptance; and the Skills When the Crisis Is Addiction. The distress tolerance training methods will include individualized interactions, demonstration, and rehearsal, psychoeducation, practice exercises and homework assignments. Follow up between sessions will done using telephone calling and messaging in order to encourage performance homework assignments, and provide help and support when needed particularly at the time of stress. .
Other Names:
  • dialectical behavioral therapy
NO_INTERVENTION: control group
Nursing students not participating in distress tolerance training session

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
The Problematic Internet Use Questionnaire (PIU)
Time Frame: up to 16 weeks
The Problematic Internet Use Questionnaire was developed by and it is an 18-item self- report scale that measures the extent of how risky internet usage can be. Items are scored from 1 = never to 5 = always. This test has three factors, i.e., Obsession, Neglect, and Control disorder. Earlier studies showed that PIU subscales have good psychometric properties, with high reliability (αs of .74-.87), high 3-week stability (rs from .76 to .90), and acceptable discriminant validity (e.g., confirmed by negligible associations with alcohol or illicit drug use and significant but weak associations with the use of gaming machines).
up to 16 weeks
Ryff psychological well being scale (PWBS)
Time Frame: up to 16 weeks
The Ryff psychological well being scale was originally consisted of six 7-item subscales for the assessment of six factors: (1) autonomy; (2) environmental mastery; (3) personal growth; (4) positive relations with others; (5) purpose in life and (6) self-acceptance. Response categories for these items are scored along a seven-point Likert scale ranging from strongly disagree (1) to strongly agree (7). The scores of some items will be reversed as recommended in Ryff's original PWBS. The scores for six subscales were calculated as averages; higher mean scores indicate greater psychological wellbeing. Internal consistency (alpha coefficients) was estimated from a sample of older and middle-aged groups , average alphas were .78, and .77, respectively, for the two groups.
up to 16 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Alexandria University

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (ACTUAL)

September 1, 2022

Primary Completion (ACTUAL)

January 1, 2023

Study Completion (ACTUAL)

January 15, 2023

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

January 25, 2023

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

January 25, 2023

First Posted (ACTUAL)

February 3, 2023

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (ACTUAL)

February 3, 2023

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

January 25, 2023

Last Verified

January 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Other Study ID Numbers

  • IRB00013620/9/2022/48

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

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