Brain Imaging, Mental Health Disorder, Social Media
Conditions
Keywords
Social Media, Shallow reading, multimodal MRI, Brain network
Brief summary
Social media is pervasively used in our life. There is a research hypothesis that the information in social media is shallow and the long-term use of it will cause readers' addiction, insomnia, and inability to pay attention, thus reducing the efficiency of learning and working. However, there is no systematic study on the relationship between shallow reading in social media and attention, addiction, sleep quality, and other mental health. Therefore, the investigators intend to explore the effect of shallow reading in social media on mental health based on about 300 healthy subjects by conducting questionnaire, cognitive scale assessment, multi-mode MRI scanning and EEG monitoring. A cross-sectional study will be combined with a longitudinal study to explore the clinical characteristics its relationship to brain function.
Detailed description
With the development of social media such as twitter, Facebook and Microblog, shallow reading has gradually become the main way for people to obtain external information and relax. Shallow reading is characterized by incomplete and intermittent reading patterns, and readers often dip into it without thinking. There is a research hypothesis that the information in social media is shallow and the long-term use of it will cause readers' addiction, insomnia, and inability to pay attention, thus reducing the efficiency of learning and working. Some researchers even concern that shallow reading is destroying human beings' suspicion spirit, thinking ability and rational thinking which are based on writing and print culture. However, there is no systematic study on the relationship between shallow reading and attention or other mental health, not to mention its fMRI and EEG characteristics. Therefore, the investigators intend to explore the effect of shallow reading in social media on mental health based on about 300 healthy subjects by conducting questionnaire, cognitive scale assessment, multi-mode MRI scanning and EEG monitoring. A cross-sectional study will be combined with a longitudinal study to better understand both the short-term and long-term effect of shallow reading habit to the mental health and imaging characteristics. The collected indexes will be analyzed to explore the clinical characteristics of people with the habit of shallow reading, and its relationship to mental health, brain imaging characteristics will finally be clarified.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALsmartphone related behaviors
Participants are required to watch specific contents on their own smartphones.
Sponsors
Tang-Du Hospital
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
DOUBLE (Caregiver, Investigator)
Masking description
Participants know their intervention because they are informed to use their smartphone as expected.
Intervention model description
Four parallel group, each with a different intervention, of which two are shallow reading in social media (different type), the other two are common use of smartphone.
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
1. Health volunteers 2. Capable to use smartphone
Exclusion criteria
1. Participants with a BMI greater than 30 or less than 18.5 2. Any use of cigarettes or alcohol 3. Color blindness 4. Left-handedness 5. With mental or psychiatric disorders 6. With cognitive impairment 7. Has a history of brain trauma 8. Has a family history of psychiatric disorders
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Dynamic change of sustained attention from baseline state to after 2 hours of social media use | Baseline state and after 2 hours | Continuous performance test (CPT) will be used to assess the difference of sustained attention before and after social media use. minimum: 0 maximum values: 1 Higher scores mean a better outcome. |
| Dynamic change of selective attention from baseline state to after 2 hours of social media use | Baseline state and after 2 hours | Stroop color word test (SCWT) will be used to assess the difference of selective attention before and after social media use. minimum: 0 maximum values: 1 Higher scores mean a better outcome. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Brain functional connectivity changes from baseline state to after 2 hours of social media use | Baseline state and after 2 hours | Blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) in MRI will be used to assess the difference of functional connectivity before and after social media use. |
| Cerebral blood flow changes from baseline state to after 2 hours of social media use | Baseline state and after 2 hours | Artery spin labeling (ASL) in MRI will be used to assess the difference of cerebral blood flow before and after social media use. |
Contacts
Primary ContactGuangbin Cui, MD & PhD
Backup ContactWen Wang, MD & PhD
Outcome results
None listed