Recruiting

Observational Study

Sponsor:

New York Institute of Technology

Code:

NCT06114017

Conditions

Attention Difficulties

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 30

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

Social Media Abstention

Study Details

Brief summary:

The current study's goal is to determine if a one-week break from social media in all forms has a beneficial effect on people's attention, as measured by the Sustained Attention to Response Task, executive function as measured by the Stroop test, and well-being.

Conditions

Attention Difficulties

Study ID

NCT06114017

Start date

Aug 29, 2023

Status verified date

Apr, 2024

Completion date

Aug 31, 2024

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Aug 31, 2024

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 30

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • 18-30 years old
  • have and regularly use some form of social media
  • use on average more than 1 hour of social media a day
  • are willing to temporarily delete all social media for 1 week duration

Exclusion Criteria:

  • no social media usage
  • ADHD or other known conditions that affect attention and/or concentration
  • current concussion

Study Design

Enrollment

50 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Single group

Primary purpose

Other

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: 1: Social Media Abstention

People in this arm will be encouraged to disable social media and not use social media for one week.

no intervention: 2: Control

People in this group will continue their normal behavior in regard to social media use.

Interventions

Social Media Abstention

People will stop or reduce their social media use for one week.

Primary outcome measure

  • Inquisit Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART) [ Time Frame: through study completion, an average of one week ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Amber Sousa, PhD

516-686-7698asousa@nyit.edu

Alec Toufexis

516-686-7698atoufe01@nyit.edu

Locations

NYIT

Recruiting

Old Westbury, New York, United States, 11568

Contacts

Amber Sousa, PhD

631-686-7698asousa@nyit.edu

More Information

Sponsor

New York Institute of Technology

Last update posted

Apr 5, 2024

Last verified

Apr, 2024

Keywords

  • social media
  • attention
  • wellbeing

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by New York Institute of Technology on 2024-04-05.