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Prevalence and risk factors associated with Internet gaming disorder: A cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Internet gaming disorder (IGD) is an entity of clinical attention prominent among schoolgoing students. The reported nature and extent of Internet gaming varies widely, as does the extent of its effects. AIM: This study aimed to assess the prevalence of IGD and factors associated with it...

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Autores principales: Singh, Yujal Man, Prakash, Jyoti, Chatterjee, Kaushik, Khadka, Bharat, Shah, Ayushma, Chauhan, Vinay Singh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8611597/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34908685
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-6748.328810
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author Singh, Yujal Man
Prakash, Jyoti
Chatterjee, Kaushik
Khadka, Bharat
Shah, Ayushma
Chauhan, Vinay Singh
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Prakash, Jyoti
Chatterjee, Kaushik
Khadka, Bharat
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description BACKGROUND: Internet gaming disorder (IGD) is an entity of clinical attention prominent among schoolgoing students. The reported nature and extent of Internet gaming varies widely, as does the extent of its effects. AIM: This study aimed to assess the prevalence of IGD and factors associated with it. METHODS: After institution ethics approval, individual assent, and parental consent, a cross-sectional study was conducted among 142 students of a school in western Maharashtra. A specially designed sociodemographic pro forma and IGD Scale were administered to the students. Data thus generated were statistically analyzed and compared with published literature. RESULTS: The prevalence of IGD was 10.6% among 13–19-year-old students. It was significantly higher among male students (15.3%) than female students (3.5%). Multivariate logistic regression found IGD to be significantly associated with male gender and lower age at first gameplay. CONCLUSIONS: IGD affects a tenth of our schoolgoing population with a male preponderance. Lower age at first gameplay had an adverse association.
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spelling pubmed-86115972021-12-13 Prevalence and risk factors associated with Internet gaming disorder: A cross-sectional study Singh, Yujal Man Prakash, Jyoti Chatterjee, Kaushik Khadka, Bharat Shah, Ayushma Chauhan, Vinay Singh Ind Psychiatry J Original Article BACKGROUND: Internet gaming disorder (IGD) is an entity of clinical attention prominent among schoolgoing students. The reported nature and extent of Internet gaming varies widely, as does the extent of its effects. AIM: This study aimed to assess the prevalence of IGD and factors associated with it. METHODS: After institution ethics approval, individual assent, and parental consent, a cross-sectional study was conducted among 142 students of a school in western Maharashtra. A specially designed sociodemographic pro forma and IGD Scale were administered to the students. Data thus generated were statistically analyzed and compared with published literature. RESULTS: The prevalence of IGD was 10.6% among 13–19-year-old students. It was significantly higher among male students (15.3%) than female students (3.5%). Multivariate logistic regression found IGD to be significantly associated with male gender and lower age at first gameplay. CONCLUSIONS: IGD affects a tenth of our schoolgoing population with a male preponderance. Lower age at first gameplay had an adverse association. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021-10 2021-10-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8611597/ /pubmed/34908685 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-6748.328810 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Industrial Psychiatry Journal https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Khadka, Bharat
Shah, Ayushma
Chauhan, Vinay Singh
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title Prevalence and risk factors associated with Internet gaming disorder: A cross-sectional study
title_full Prevalence and risk factors associated with Internet gaming disorder: A cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Prevalence and risk factors associated with Internet gaming disorder: A cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence and risk factors associated with Internet gaming disorder: A cross-sectional study
title_short Prevalence and risk factors associated with Internet gaming disorder: A cross-sectional study
title_sort prevalence and risk factors associated with internet gaming disorder: a cross-sectional study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8611597/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34908685
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-6748.328810
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