Digital Addiction Intervention for Children and Adolescents: A Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT: Digital devices play a significant role in the learning and living of children and adolescents, whose overuse or addiction has become a global concern. This scoping review seeks to synthesize existing studies to investigate relevant interventions and their effects on digital addiction in children (ages 0-18). To understand the latest advances, we have identified 17 studies published in international peer-reviewed journals between 2018-2022. The findings revealed that, first, most interventions for digital addiction in children and adolescents were cognitive-behavioral therapies (CBT) or CBT-based interventions, which could improve anxiety, depression, and related symptoms of digital addiction. Second, rather than directly targeting addictive behaviors, some family-based interventions aim t

SUBMITTER: Ding K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10049137 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature