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Internet addiction detection rate among college students in the People’s Republic of China: a meta-analysis

BACKGROUND: With the development of economy and technology, the Internet is becoming more and more popular. Internet addiction has gradually become a serious issue in public health worldwide. The number of Internet users in China has reached 731 million, with an estimated 24 million adolescents dete...

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Autores principales: Shao, Yao-jun, Zheng, Tong, Wang, Yan-qiu, Liu, Ling, Chen, Yan, Yao, Ying-shui
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5970523/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29849754
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13034-018-0231-6
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author Shao, Yao-jun
Zheng, Tong
Wang, Yan-qiu
Liu, Ling
Chen, Yan
Yao, Ying-shui
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Zheng, Tong
Wang, Yan-qiu
Liu, Ling
Chen, Yan
Yao, Ying-shui
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description BACKGROUND: With the development of economy and technology, the Internet is becoming more and more popular. Internet addiction has gradually become a serious issue in public health worldwide. The number of Internet users in China has reached 731 million, with an estimated 24 million adolescents determined as having Internet addiction. In this meta-analysis, we attempted to estimate the prevalence of Internet addiction among College Students in the People’s Republic of China in order to improve the mental health level of college students and provide evidence for the prevention of Internet addiction. METHODS: Eligible articles about the prevalence of Internet addiction among college students in China published between 2006 and 2017 were retrieved from online Chinese periodicals, the full-text databases of Wan Fang, VIP, and the Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure, as well as PubMed. Stata 11.0 was used to perform the analyses. RESULTS: A total of 26 papers were included in the analyses. The overall sample size was 38,245, with 4573 diagnosed with Internet addiction. The pooled detection rate of Internet addiction was 11% (95% confidence interval [CI] 9–13%) among college students in China. The detection rate was higher in male students (16%) than female students (8%). The Internet addiction detection rate was 11% (95% CI 8–14%) in southern areas, 11% (95% CI 7–14%) in northern areas, 13% (95% CI 8–18%) in eastern areas and 9% (95% CI 8–11%) in the mid-western areas. According to different scales, the Internet addiction detection rate was 11% (95% CI 8–15%) using the Young scale and 9% (95% CI 6–11%) using the Chen scale respectively. Cumulative meta analysis showed that the detection rate had a slight upward trend and gradually stabilized in the last 3 years. CONCLUSION: The pooled Internet addiction detection rate of Chinese college students in out study was 11%, which is higher than in some other countries and strongly demonstrates a worrisome situation. Effective measures should be taken to prevent further Internet addiction and improve the current situation.
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spelling pubmed-59705232018-05-30 Internet addiction detection rate among college students in the People’s Republic of China: a meta-analysis Shao, Yao-jun Zheng, Tong Wang, Yan-qiu Liu, Ling Chen, Yan Yao, Ying-shui Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health Research Article BACKGROUND: With the development of economy and technology, the Internet is becoming more and more popular. Internet addiction has gradually become a serious issue in public health worldwide. The number of Internet users in China has reached 731 million, with an estimated 24 million adolescents determined as having Internet addiction. In this meta-analysis, we attempted to estimate the prevalence of Internet addiction among College Students in the People’s Republic of China in order to improve the mental health level of college students and provide evidence for the prevention of Internet addiction. METHODS: Eligible articles about the prevalence of Internet addiction among college students in China published between 2006 and 2017 were retrieved from online Chinese periodicals, the full-text databases of Wan Fang, VIP, and the Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure, as well as PubMed. Stata 11.0 was used to perform the analyses. RESULTS: A total of 26 papers were included in the analyses. The overall sample size was 38,245, with 4573 diagnosed with Internet addiction. The pooled detection rate of Internet addiction was 11% (95% confidence interval [CI] 9–13%) among college students in China. The detection rate was higher in male students (16%) than female students (8%). The Internet addiction detection rate was 11% (95% CI 8–14%) in southern areas, 11% (95% CI 7–14%) in northern areas, 13% (95% CI 8–18%) in eastern areas and 9% (95% CI 8–11%) in the mid-western areas. According to different scales, the Internet addiction detection rate was 11% (95% CI 8–15%) using the Young scale and 9% (95% CI 6–11%) using the Chen scale respectively. Cumulative meta analysis showed that the detection rate had a slight upward trend and gradually stabilized in the last 3 years. CONCLUSION: The pooled Internet addiction detection rate of Chinese college students in out study was 11%, which is higher than in some other countries and strongly demonstrates a worrisome situation. Effective measures should be taken to prevent further Internet addiction and improve the current situation. BioMed Central 2018-05-25 /pmc/articles/PMC5970523/ /pubmed/29849754 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13034-018-0231-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Wang, Yan-qiu
Liu, Ling
Chen, Yan
Yao, Ying-shui
Internet addiction detection rate among college students in the People’s Republic of China: a meta-analysis
title Internet addiction detection rate among college students in the People’s Republic of China: a meta-analysis
title_full Internet addiction detection rate among college students in the People’s Republic of China: a meta-analysis
title_fullStr Internet addiction detection rate among college students in the People’s Republic of China: a meta-analysis
title_full_unstemmed Internet addiction detection rate among college students in the People’s Republic of China: a meta-analysis
title_short Internet addiction detection rate among college students in the People’s Republic of China: a meta-analysis
title_sort internet addiction detection rate among college students in the people’s republic of china: a meta-analysis
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5970523/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29849754
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13034-018-0231-6
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