Estimated prevalence of unreported IGD cases in routine outpatient children and adolescent psychotherapy
- Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) has been included in the DSM-5 as a diagnosis for further study, and Gaming Disorder as a new diagnosis in the ICD-11. Nonetheless, little is known about the clinical prevalence of IGD in children and adolescents. Additionally, it is unclear if patients with IGD are already identified in routine psychotherapy, using the ICD-10 diagnosis F 63.8 (recommended classification of IGD in ICD-10). This study investigated N = 358 children and adolescents (self and parental rating) of an outpatient psychotherapy centre in Germany using the Video Game Dependency Scale. According to self-report 4.0% of the 11- to 17-year-old patients met criteria for a tentative IGD diagnosis and 14.0% according to the parental report. Of the 5- to 10-year-old patients, 4.1% were diagnosed with tentative IGD according to parental report. Patients meeting IGD criteria were most frequently diagnosed with hyperkinetic disorders, followed by anxiety disorders, F 63.8, conduct disorders, mood disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorders (descending order) as primary clinical diagnoses. Consequently, this study indicates that a significant amount of the clinical population presents IGD. Meaning, appropriate diagnostics should be included in routine psychological diagnostics in order to avoid “hidden” cases of IGD in the future.
Author: | Sonja KewitzGND, Eva Vonderlin, Lutz WartbergGND, Katajun LindenbergORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-615475 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18136787 |
ISSN: | 1661-7827 |
Parent Title (English): | International journal of environmental research and public health : IJERPH |
Publisher: | MDPI AG |
Place of publication: | Basel |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2021/06/24 |
Date of first Publication: | 2021/06/24 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2021/08/03 |
Tag: | F 63.8; Internet Gaming Disorder; adolescents; children; clinical diagnoses; clinical sample; comorbidities; prevalence |
Volume: | 18 |
Issue: | 13, art. 6787 |
Page Number: | 10 |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 10 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 487443888 |
Institutes: | Psychologie und Sportwissenschaften |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Open-Access-Publikationsfonds: | Psychologie und Sportwissenschaften |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |