Evaluation of a Family-centered Program for Problematic Gaming/Excessive Screen Use

NCT07245862 | Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: 2025-05262-01
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 170
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The Family-Centered Program for Problematic Gaming and Excessive Screen Use (FAME) is a pioneering initiative designed to address the growing challenges of excessive screen use and gaming among children and adolescents, particularly within family dynamics.

Conditions

Gaming Disorder; Family Relations; Adolescent Behavior; Social Media Addiction

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• FCU

  five items measure parent-child warmth, and three items measure parent-child conflicts

  Baseline; Post treatment; 1 month post treatment

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• SCREENS-Q (adapted) time (19) • PARCA for assessing aspects of parent-child relationship and parenting practices (22) • FCU five items measure parent-child warmth, and three items measure parent-child conflicts (23)

  Baseline; Post treatment; 1 month post treatment

• PARCA

  Baseline; Post treatment; 1 month post treatment

Study Arms (2)

Intervention

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

The critical components include psychoeducation, cognitive restructuring, and social and emotional learning. The goals are to help children and parents understand the positive and negative aspects of screen use and to prevent related problems and family conflicts. The intervention consist of 4 group mettings parents and children separate. Max 10 children per group

Behavioral: Family-centered Program for Problematic Gaming/Excessive Screen Use in a child and adolescent population within Social Services

Control

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

This group will recieve treatment as usual. After final follow up this group will be offered an online parental intervention of 3 sessions

Behavioral: Control

Interventions

Control BEHAVIORAL

This group will recieve TAU == treat ment as usual depending on the practice at the Social service they belong to

Control

Family-centered Program for Problematic Gaming/Excessive Screen Use in a child and adolescent population within Social Services BEHAVIORAL

The critical components include psychoeducation, cognitive restructuring, and social and emotional learning.his would be the first intervention offering help for both children and their parents. Such an intervention could be beneficial not only to individual families, but also to society at large by reducing societal costs, enhancing family well-being, and addressing health inequalities . the intervention is agroup intervention in 4 sessions with parents in one group and children in one group. The goals are to help children and parents understand the positive and negative aspects of screen use and to prevent related problems and family conflicts. T

Intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 11 Years - 14 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• family conflicts related to screen use
• spaeks and udnerstand swedish

You may not qualify if:

• se above

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Region Skane: lead
• Lund University: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinic

Lund, Sweden

RECRUITING

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Adolescent Behavior; Internet Addiction Disorder

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior; Technology Addiction; Behavior, Addictive; Compulsive Behavior; Impulsive Behavior

Central Study Contacts

Emma Claesdotter-Knutsson, PhD

CONTACT

+46768871765; emma.claesdotter-knutsson@skane.se

Sabina Kapetanovic, PhD

CONTACT

sabina.kapetanovic@hv.se

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Model Details: This study is a 2-arm, parallel-group randomized controlled trial (RCT). Social services in three municipalities (Lund, Eslöv) have endorsed the project and provided each a letter of intent. Families seeking help for conflicts related to child digital media use will be invited to participate. Eligible families will be randomly assigned to either the intervention group, receiving the S-FAME program, or the control group, receiving standard care. These groups will be matched based on specific preexisting characteristics. Based on power analyses appx 176 participants will be required to detect a small effect size (d = .03), accounting for potential attrition.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 12, 2025
• First Posted: November 24, 2025
• Study Start: January 1, 2026
• Primary Completion (Estimated): January 1, 2027
• Study Completion (Estimated): January 1, 2028
• Last Updated: April 30, 2026

Record last verified: 2025-11

Locations

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