Inclusion of gaming disorder in the diagnostic classifications and promotion of public health response: Commentary to the “Scholars’ open debate paper on the World Health Organization ICD-11 Gaming Disorder proposal”: A perspective from Iran

There are ongoing controversies regarding the upcoming ICD-11 concept of gaming disorder. Recently, Aarseth et al. have put this diagnostic entity into scrutiny. Although we, a group of Iranian researchers and clinicians, acknowledge some of Aarseth et al.’s concerns, believe that the inclusion of g...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Shadloo, Behrang, Farnam, Rabert, Amin-Esmaeili, Masoumeh, Hamzehzadeh, Marziyeh, Rafiemanesh, Hosein, Jobehdar, Maral Mardaneh, Ghani, Kamyar, Charkhgard, Nader, Rahimi-Movaghar, Afarin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Akadémiai Kiadó 2017
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Commentary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5700723/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28816499
http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/2006.6.2017.048
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Sumario:There are ongoing controversies regarding the upcoming ICD-11 concept of gaming disorder. Recently, Aarseth et al. have put this diagnostic entity into scrutiny. Although we, a group of Iranian researchers and clinicians, acknowledge some of Aarseth et al.’s concerns, believe that the inclusion of gaming disorder in the upcoming ICD-11 would facilitate necessary steps to raise public awareness, enhance development of proper diagnostic approaches and treatment interventions, and improve health and non-health policies.

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