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Participants will download a phone-tracking app for a week to track phone usage, providing objective data on usage patterns. Quantitative tasks and questionnaires will also be carried out before and after the tracking period.
A notable shortcoming of existing mobile phone research is that 'phone use' has almost exclusively been measured through subjective reports - by simply asking respondents how much time they spend on their mobile phones each day. This operational definition, however, is a major shortcoming as phone use is difficult to track - and is thus likely to be highly inaccurate.
To address this gap, the investigators describe in this proposal a first step to characterize phone usage in an objective manner - by asking adolescents to download a phone-tracking app for a week. This circumvents measurement errors inherent to self-reports, and allows us to probe: (1) how accurate adolescents' estimates are of their own phone usage, and (2) whether objective phone usage predicts any cognitive, socio-emotional, or physical outcomes. The completion of this study will represent an important step forward in the development of empirically-driven guidelines on phone use amongst adolescents.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
|---|---|---|---|
| High school student | 13-18 year old students enrolled in schools within Singapore. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phone use | Behavioral | Objective and subjective reports of smartphone use (e.g., number of hours, number of pick-ups, how phones are used) |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
|---|---|---|
| Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS 21) | A 21-item, 4-point scale measuring participant emotional states. This is the short form of the longer 42-item DASS. | 11 minutes (single measurement) |
| Body mass index | Participants' body mass index | 1 minute (single measurement) |
| Sleep duration | Assessment of participants' sleep time & wake time | 2 minute (single measurement) |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
|---|---|---|
| Digit Span Task | A digit span task carried out using a computer program | 10 minutes (single measurement) |
| Psychomotor Vigilance Task | PVT carried out using a computer program |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
|---|---|---|
| General Questionnaire on Media Consumption | A short questionnaire on the usage patterns of various media devices. | 5 minutes (single measurement) |
| Subjective Report of Phone Usage | A 5-item questionnaire that collects data on self-reported phone use patterns. |
Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
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Adolescents aged 13-18 years old recruited from Singapore schools.
| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jean Liu, PhD | Contact | 66013694 | jeanliu@yale-nus.edu.sg |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Jean Liu, PhD | Yale-NUS College | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yale-NUS College | Recruiting | Singapore | 138527 | Singapore |
Stipulations by the institutional review board do not allow individualized data to be shared.
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| ID | Term |
|---|---|
| D009765 | Obesity |
| D003863 | Depression |
| D001008 | Anxiety Disorders |
| ID | Term |
|---|---|
| D050177 | Overweight |
| D044343 | Overnutrition |
| D009748 | Nutrition Disorders |
| D009750 | Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases |
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| 10 minutes (single measurement) |
| Pediatric Daytime Sleepiness Scale (PDSS) | A 8-item, 5-point self-report scale to measure sleepiness during the day. | 5 minutes (single measurement) |
| Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) | A questionnaire looking at a student's emotional and behavioural aspects in relation to coping with school. | 10 minutes (single measurement) |
| 10 minutes (single measurement) |
| D001835 |
| Body Weight |
| D012816 | Signs and Symptoms |
| D013568 | Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms |
| D001526 | Behavioral Symptoms |
| D001519 | Behavior |
| D001523 | Mental Disorders |