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Effect of Narrative Therapy-Based Group Psychological Counseling on Internet Addiction among Adolescents

BACKGROUND: There are a large number of psychological problems caused by Internet addiction. We aimed to explore the intervention effect of narrative therapy in combination with Pilates exercise on Internet addiction among adolescents. METHOD: From July 2021 to October 2021, 42 adolescents with Inte...

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Autores principales: Gong, Yingying, Gong, Ning, Zhang, Zhihui, He, Yang, Tang, Haiou
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9659539/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36447965
http://dx.doi.org/10.18502/ijph.v51i6.9678
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author Gong, Yingying
Gong, Ning
Zhang, Zhihui
He, Yang
Tang, Haiou
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Gong, Ning
Zhang, Zhihui
He, Yang
Tang, Haiou
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description BACKGROUND: There are a large number of psychological problems caused by Internet addiction. We aimed to explore the intervention effect of narrative therapy in combination with Pilates exercise on Internet addiction among adolescents. METHOD: From July 2021 to October 2021, 42 adolescents with Internet addiction selected from four communities in Yiyang City of China were randomly divided into the intervention and control groups with 21 members in each group. The intervention group participated in the intervention of narrative therapy in combination with Pilates exercise eight times, whereas the control group did not receive any intervention. The 12-item General Health Questionnaire, Self-rating Young’s Diagnostic Questionnaire of Internet Addiction, and Positive Affect Subscale were used to measure the psychological indexes of the adolescents before and after the intervention. RESULTS: Compared with those in the control group, the adolescents in the intervention group had an obvious decrease in the degree of Internet addiction with a statistically significant difference before and after the intervention (P < 0.001). After the intervention, the intervention group had significantly higher mental health scores and significantly lower scores for anxiety, depression, social dysfunction, and loss of interest than the control group. After the intervention, the intervention group showed an obvious increase in the score for positive affect with a statistically significant difference before and after the intervention (P < 0.001). CONCLUSION: The intervention method proposed in this study could effectively solve the problem of Internet addiction among adolescents.
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spelling pubmed-96595392022-11-28 Effect of Narrative Therapy-Based Group Psychological Counseling on Internet Addiction among Adolescents Gong, Yingying Gong, Ning Zhang, Zhihui He, Yang Tang, Haiou Iran J Public Health Original Article BACKGROUND: There are a large number of psychological problems caused by Internet addiction. We aimed to explore the intervention effect of narrative therapy in combination with Pilates exercise on Internet addiction among adolescents. METHOD: From July 2021 to October 2021, 42 adolescents with Internet addiction selected from four communities in Yiyang City of China were randomly divided into the intervention and control groups with 21 members in each group. The intervention group participated in the intervention of narrative therapy in combination with Pilates exercise eight times, whereas the control group did not receive any intervention. The 12-item General Health Questionnaire, Self-rating Young’s Diagnostic Questionnaire of Internet Addiction, and Positive Affect Subscale were used to measure the psychological indexes of the adolescents before and after the intervention. RESULTS: Compared with those in the control group, the adolescents in the intervention group had an obvious decrease in the degree of Internet addiction with a statistically significant difference before and after the intervention (P < 0.001). After the intervention, the intervention group had significantly higher mental health scores and significantly lower scores for anxiety, depression, social dysfunction, and loss of interest than the control group. After the intervention, the intervention group showed an obvious increase in the score for positive affect with a statistically significant difference before and after the intervention (P < 0.001). CONCLUSION: The intervention method proposed in this study could effectively solve the problem of Internet addiction among adolescents. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2022-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9659539/ /pubmed/36447965 http://dx.doi.org/10.18502/ijph.v51i6.9678 Text en Copyright © 2022 Gong et al. Published by Tehran University of Medical Sciences https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Effect of Narrative Therapy-Based Group Psychological Counseling on Internet Addiction among Adolescents
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title_short Effect of Narrative Therapy-Based Group Psychological Counseling on Internet Addiction among Adolescents
title_sort effect of narrative therapy-based group psychological counseling on internet addiction among adolescents
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9659539/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36447965
http://dx.doi.org/10.18502/ijph.v51i6.9678
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