The Impact of Group Reality Therapy Based on Choice Theory on Social Anxiety and Self-efficacy of Students with Cell Phone Addiction

The main objective : Determining the effect of group reality therapy based on selection theory on social anxiety and self-efficacy of students with cell phone dependence. Secondary objectives: 1. Determining and comparing the social anxiety of students with cell phone dependence in the two groups of test and control before and after the intervention; 2. Determining and comparing the self-efficacy of students with mobile phone dependence in two experimental and control groups before and after the intervention.

Clinical trial with intervention and control groups that are selected by simple random allocation by sampling method.

Sampling place: from virtual groups of nursing students studying ( due to corona virus coditions). How to do it: In a simple random allocation and by lottery method. A total of 52 people enter the study and are assigned to two groups of test and control.

Inclusion criteria: 1. Students who were undergraduate nursing in Tehran University of Medical Sciences. 2. Students who received a score higher than 43 from the Kuh-e-He mobile phone dependency questionnaire. 3. Students who are not under another educational or medical program at the same time as the educational program. Exclusion criterion: Absence of more than two sessions in reality therapy sessions.

The intervention group learns reality therapy based on selection theory in 6 sessions of 1.5 hours and the control group does not learn any intervention or training.

If the positive effect of group reality therapy based on choice theory on social anxiety and self-efficacy of individuals, administrators and educational policy makers can use this therapeutic approach as a group in schools, universities and all young people to manage low self-efficacy and social anxiety due to dependence.

All nursing students, members of the Tehran School of Nursing and Midwifery, were asked to complete an online questionnaire on demographic information and cell phone dependence, if possible and desired. Then, 58 students were randomly selected from the students completing the questionnaire based on the inclusion criteria, and were divided into two groups of test (intervention) and control by simple random allocation using the lottery method. First, a list of eligible people was prepared, then a number from one to 58 was assigned to each of them, and by drawing lots, the numbers were written on pieces of paper and placed in a container and mixed well to make a sample. With a certain volume of each intervention and control group was determined. According to the method of determining the sample size based on the opinion of the professor of statistics, a maximum of 58 people entered the study, of which 52 people in total and 26 people in each test and control group, taking into account the loss of 10% of the sample.