The Impact of Different Sports on Reducing Mobile Phone Addiction: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis

Abstract

This study employed network meta-analysis to evaluate the impact of several exercise interventions on mobile phone addiction. The aim is to determine the most effective exercise intervention measures and establish a reference for future intervention measures to improve mobile phone addiction. We systematically searched the relevant literature on the Web of Science, PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, China Knowledge, Wanfang and other domestic and foreign databases. We assessed the risk of bias according to the revised Cochrane Randomised Trial Bias Risk tool and performed traditional and Web-based meta-analyses using Review Manager 5.3 and Stata 14.0. The traditional meta-results showed that exercise intervention was superior to the control group in improving mobile phone addiction (SMD = −1.05, 95%CI −1.62, −0.48). Network meta-analysis results show that aerobic exercise (AE) is superior to other sports in reducing the total score of mobile phone addiction among teenagers, and the probability of aerobics becoming the best intervention for mobile phone addiction among teenagers is the highest (SUCRA = 95.6%). Exercise intervention can reduce the score of mobile phone addiction, while AE has more advantages in improving mobile phone addiction. However, due to the influence of sample size and the quality of the included literature, it is recommended that the results be further verified in the future.