Trial reportInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022
The Influence of Acute Aerobic Exercise on Craving Degree for University Students with Mobile Phone Dependency: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
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- Therapeutic Interventions Targeted at Problematic Use of Digital Technology: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Evidence.JMIR mental health · 2026Pooled it
- The bidirectional modulation of acute aerobic exercise on cognitive performance and brain electrical activity in adolescents with smartphone addiction: an experimental study using EEG power spectrum analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2026Trial
- Trialing a simple mobile phone dependency intervention strategy among Chinese college students.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Physical exercise and problematic smartphone use among adolescents in Western China: a multi-center cross-sectional study on the serial mediation of self-control and meaning in life.BMC public health · 2026Article
- The mediating role of psychological resilience and loneliness between physical activity and mobile phone addiction among adolescents.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Parental psychological control and smartphone addiction in Chinese college students: the moderated mediation roles of self-control and achievement motivation.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The relationship between sleep quality and physical learning engagement among Chinese college students: a variable centered and person centered analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Effect of impact mechanism and intervention measures on sleep quality of college students addicted to short video: a randomly controlled trial.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- The relationship between physical exercise and mobile phone dependence in college students: the chain mediating of self-control and social adaptability.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Forms of interventions for problematic usage of the internet: A scoping review.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2025Article
- Effects of community-based open and closed skill exercise interventions on ecological executive function and mobile phone dependence of adolescents.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The impact of table tennis intervention on short video addiction among college students in China: the chained mediation effect of cognitive bias and self-control.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The relationship between physical activity and short video addiction among college students: mediating effects of self-control and social anxiety.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Dual-pathway protection: physical activity buffers the relationship between perceived stress and problematic smartphone use via social anxiety by a moderated mediation model in Chinese college students.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Mobile phone addiction and insomnia among college students in China during the COVID-19 pandemic: a moderated mediation model.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- The mediating effect of subject well-being between physical activity and the internet addiction of college students in China during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Unveiling the grip of mobile phone addiction: an in-depth review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Review
- The Longitudinal Mediating Effect of Smartphone Dependency on the Relationship between Exercise Time and Subjective Happiness in Adolescents.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Self-esteem mediates the relationship between physical activity and smartphone addiction of Chinese college students: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Exercise intervention to reduce mobile phone addiction in adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
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Abstract
These days, mobile phone dependency (MPD) has become one of the most imperative and impressive puzzles in the area of behavioral addictions and public health across the world, especially the individuals with MPD that might frequently crave using mobile phones themselves. The target of the current study was to determine whether moderate-intensity aerobic exercise could reduce the craving degree for mobile phones for university students with MPD by a randomized, controlled trial. Sixty Chinese undergraduates, including 30 male and 30 female students aged from 18 to 22 years (20.08 ± 1.94 years) with MPD were recruited and then randomly assigned to the exercise group (n = 30) or the control group (n = 30) with even numbers by gender and major. Participants in the exercise group were required to perform an acute moderate-intensity treadmill exercise lasting for 30 min at 45−68% heart rate reserve (HRR) with background music, while the control group were only asked to listen to the same music for 40 min without any exercise. Sport watches were employed to monitor their heart rate (HR), and the exercise group was also obliged to report their rating of perceived exertion (RPE). After completing the experimental task, a visual analog scale (VAS) was used to evaluate their craving degree for mobile phones, and an independent samples t-test was computed to reveal the difference in the scores of craving degree for mobile phones between the two groups. The results showed that the VAS score for the exercise group (3.77 ± 1.36) was significantly lower (p < 0.001) than that of the control group (6.11 ± 1.39). The findings suggested that acute moderate-intensity aerobic exercise could be an effective and reliable means to help deal with the issue of mobile phones craving for the undergraduates with MPD, and more longitudinal intervention studies and control trial designs should be conducted in the near future to further test the long-term effects of this exercise.
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