Application of personalized normative feedback interventions in preventing adolescent internet addiction / 中国学校卫生

ABSTRACT

Objective@#To explore the influence of personalized normative feedback interventions on precaution of adolescents’ Internet addiction，and to provide a new perspective for intervention in youth health online.@*Methods@#A total of 170 students from the second grade in a middle school and a high school of Fuzhou Province were randomly selected between April and May in 2016. By using the pretest post-test control group design, 90 adolescents in experimental group received personalized normative feedback interventions, while the 80 adolescents in control group were tested without interventions.@*Results@#At 1-month after intervention, students in the intervention group showed positive results relative to those in the control group on variables associated with online behavior, including the online time of students in experimental group and the index of their internet addiction have significantly reduced(t=2.79 and 3.09, P<0.01). Simultaneously, the estimate of the online time towards the experimental group students has decreased(t=3.75 and 3.74, P<0.01), the estimate of the proportion of study uses has decreased(t=-2.56, P<0.05).@*Conclusion@#The personalized normative feedback interventions, to some extent, has some precautions on the adolescents’ behaviors of internet addiction.