ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2023
Digital Addiction Intervention for Children and Adolescents: A Scoping Review.
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- Impact of digital addiction on youth health: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2025Pooled it
- The effectiveness of school-based interventions to reduce problematic digital technology use and screen time: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2025Pooled it
- Interventions for Digital Addiction: Umbrella Review of Meta-Analyses.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
- Effects of active video games on physical activity among overweight and obese college students: a systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
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- Internet Gaming Addiction in Children and Adolescents: A Narrative Review in the Context of Screen Time.Cureus · 2026Review
- Digital immersion, adolescent vulnerability, and suicide: Lessons from the Ghaziabad (India) triple teen deaths.Indian journal of psychiatry · 2026Article
- Exploring the Efficacy of Spiritually Integrated Psychological Sessions in Managing Internet Addiction and Other Comorbid Symptoms.Annals of neurosciences · 2026Article
- Digital addiction among female university students: a cross-sectional study in Dhaka, Bangladesh.BMC women's health · 2026Article
- Digital Addiction Scale for Children (DASC): Age, Gender, Sleep and Emotional Correlates.Europe's journal of psychology · 2026Article
- Predictors of Problematic Internet Use Among Romanian High School Students.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The interlinked trajectories of interpersonal attachment and maladaptive behaviors among Chinese adolescents-a latent growth modeling approach.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2025Article
- Acceptance of online therapy for children and adolescents with digital media use disorders: perspectives from child and adolescent psychiatrists and psychotherapists in Germany.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Article
- Mitigating Gambling-Related Harms in Children and Young People: A Scoping Review of Interventions.Journal of gambling studies · 2025Article
- Determinants and relationships of digital addiction, diet quality, and physical activity in adolescents.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Explainable machine learning prediction of internet addiction among Chinese primary and middle school children and adolescents: a longitudinal study based on positive youth development data (2019-2022).Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Personalised care, youth mental health, and digital technology: A value sensitive design perspective and framework.Ethics and information technology · 2025Article
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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 to strengthen family functions and relationships. Finally, digital-based interventions, such as website-based, application-based, and virtual reality interventions, are promising in adolescent digital addiction interventions. However, these studies shared the same limitations: small sample sizes, short intervention durations, no control group, and nonrandomized assignments. The small sample size problem is difficult to solve by offline intervention. Meanwhile, online digital-based intervention is still in its infancy, resulting in limited generalizability of the findings and the inability to popularize digital intervention. Accordingly, future intervention studies should integrate various assessments and interventions to form an integrated platform to provide interventions for addicted children and adolescents worldwide.
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