The research will be carried out on students studying at public secondary schools in the city
      center of Amasya. First of all, the digital game addiction levels of secondary school
      students who are randomly divided into experimental and control groups will be determined,
      and then students with digital game addiction will be included in the individual motivational
      interview program, which will last 6 sessions. In the last stage of the research,
      hippotherapy will be applied to the students 1 day a week for 8 weeks. The effect of
      motivational interviewing and hippoterain on digital game addiction will be investigated by
      pre-testing at the beginning of the research and post-testing at the end.

Digital Game Addiction in Adolescents

Digital Technology

Behavior, Addictive

Adolescent

Motivation

The research was designed as a "pretest-posttest control group design type"
      quasi-experimental.

      The population of the research consists of 6908 students enrolled in 35 secondary schools in
      Amasya city center and continuing their formal education. Among the students, 1730 students
      were determined as 5th Grade, 1763 as 6th Grade, 1754 as 7th Grade and 1661 as 8th Grade.
      Considering the intensity of the program, the 8th grade students who are preparing for the
      high school entrance exam are planned to be excluded from the study in order not to affect
      the study results negatively and considering that they will graduate from their schools
      during the follow-up process to be made at the end of the research. Private schools,
      secondary school students for the hearing impaired, 12 secondary school students in villages
      and towns will be excluded from the study, on the grounds that socioeconomic factors do not
      mislead the research results. There are a total of 4443 students studying in the 5th, 6th and
      7th grades in 19 schools to be included in the study.

      Power analysis (G*Power 3.1.9.7) was performed on the basis of a similar study performed
      before in calculating the sample size of the study. As a result of the power analysis, when
      the effect size was taken as 0.50 for the effect size, the sample number determined for 0.80
      power and 0.05 margin of error was calculated as a total of 54 individuals, with a minimum of
      27 individuals for each group. Considering that there may be sample losses during the
      research process, when 20% of the sample is added to each group, it is aimed to reach a total
      of 64 students, 32 students in the experimental group and 32 students in the control group.

      2 secondary schools will be determined from a neighborhood in the city center of Amasya, and
      the experimental control separation of the schools will be determined by drawing lots.
      Schools will be selected from the same neighborhood so that there is no difference in
      socioeconomic levels between schools. In order to prevent the experimental and control groups
      from being influenced by each other, 2 different schools will be selected. The determined
      sample group will be randomly selected among the students with a digital game addiction score
      of 73 and above by using the "Digital Game Addiction Scale", and the research will be carried
      out with students who volunteer. Randomization will be done using the
      https://www.randomizer.org/ website.

      Students in the experimental group will be trained according to the IMB model, motivational
      interviews will be made only with the experimental group, and the students will be included
      in the hippotherapy program, which lasts 1 hour once a week for 8 weeks. Hippotherapy
      applications will be carried out at the horse farm in Amasya, accompanied by expert horsemen.

Training based on IMB model, motivational interview technique, hippotherapy program

The Effect Of Information, Motivation, Behavioral Skills Model-Based Motivational İnterview And Hippotherapy Program On Adolescents' Digital Game Addiction Levels

The Digital Game Addiction Scale for Children is a validated, self-report tool that assesses the level of digital game addiction. The lowest score that can be obtained from the scale is "24" and the highest score is "120". In the grading of the scale scoring; It is evaluated as "1-24: Normal group, 25-48: Low risk group, 49-72 Risk group, 73-96 Dependent group, 97-120 Highly dependent group". Change = ( Week 8 score - Baseline score).

lecturer

The Digital Game Addiction Awareness Scale is a validated, self-report tool that assesses the level of awareness of digital game addiction. The lowest score that can be obtained from the scale is "12" and the highest score is "60". Change = ( Week 8 score - Baseline score).

In the first stage, the participants will be trained according to the IMB model. In the second stage, 6 sessions of individual motivational interviews will be held for a total of 7 weeks. Finally, participants will be given hippotherapy 1 hour a week for 8 weeks.

Digital Game Addiction in Adolescents

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