Digital behavioral addictions in adolescents and young adults: Protocol for a scoping review of definitions, measurement, epidemiology, determinants, harms, interventions, and equity
Sasha R Sioni, Jenna L Butner, Nathan A Carroll, Jay Al-Hashimi, Sten H Vermund · 2026
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Sasha R. Sioni and coauthors published a 2026 protocol in PLOS ONE for a scoping review of digital behavioral addictions among teenagers and young adults. Terms here are a tangle: gaming disorder is a recognized diagnosis, internet gaming disorder awaits study, and heavy social media or smartphone use are research labels, not diagnoses. The review will map how researchers define, measure, and count these problems, and what is known about causes, harms, treatments, and fairness.
The team will search nine databases plus grey sources without date or language limits, focusing on ages ten to twenty-four. Two reviewers will screen and chart everything by hand, with source-language checks for six other languages, so automation never decides eligibility. Instruments will be sorted into evidence tiers, and results kept separate by kind: causes, associations, harms, and treatment effects. The map should give a fast-moving field shared footing.
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| CREATOR | Sasha R Sioni, Jenna L Butner, Nathan A Carroll, Jay Al-Hashimi, Sten H Vermund |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 56427 |
| LICENSE | CC_BY |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | PLOS |