Abstract
A clinical study of internet gaming disorder in adolescents with psychiatric disorders
Highlights
Video games are a popular entertainment method among all age groups, especially in adolescents and young adults, which has successfully captured the interests of many over the years since its launch
Psychiatric disorders associated with Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) were ODD (46.66%), Dissociative disorder (24.44%), attentiondeficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (17.77%) and Depressive disorder (11.11%)
Phenomenology of IGD was comparable across all psychiatric comorbidities except subjects with dissociative disorders, who had significantly higher scores for "Escape" than ADHD and Depression
Summary
Video games are a popular entertainment method among all age groups, especially in adolescents and young adults, which has successfully captured the interests of many over the years since its launch. Gaming Disorder is considered a behavioural addiction (BA)(M. D. Griffiths et al, 2013; Leeman & Potenza, 2013). Multiple similarities have been described between addictive gaming and other addictions such as substance dependence. Substance-related and BA affect the 'reward circuit' (Dong & Potenza, 2014; Weinstein & Lejoyeux, 2015). Many online addictions have been identified to date; gaming addiction has become a topic of continually evolving research because it can affect both physical and mental health
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