Pathological Internet Use—An Important Comorbidity in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Prevalence and Correlation Patterns in a Naturalistic Sample of Adolescent Inpatients.
<italic>Background.</italic> Few studies have examined the prevalence of problematic internet use (PIU) in young people undergoing inpatient treatment in child and adolescent psychiatry centers. The aims of our study were thus (a) to assess the frequency of comorbid PIU in a sample of adolescent psy...
| Publicado en: | BioMed Research International Vol. 2018; pp. 1 - 11 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=128752453&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 128752453 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 23146133 FT2T jtl: BioMed Research International issn: 23146133 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 3/29/2018 vid: 2018 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell place: Malden, Massachusetts artinfo: ui: 128752453 128752453 128752453 10.1155/2018/1629147 128752453 ppf: 1 ppct: 10 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Pathological Internet Use—An Important Comorbidity in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Prevalence and Correlation Patterns in a Naturalistic Sample of Adolescent Inpatients. aug: au: Fuchs, Martin Riedl, David Bock, Astrid Rumpold, Gerhard Sevecke, Kathrin affil: Universitätsklinik für Kinder und Jugendpsychiatrie, Medizinische Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria sug: subj: Internet Addiction Diagnosis Comorbidity Psychiatry Human Child Adolescence Prevalence Cross Sectional Studies Inpatients Hospitals, Psychiatric Control Group Psychopathology Cyberbullying Child: 6-12 years Adolescent: 13-18 years ab: <italic>Background.</italic> Few studies have examined the prevalence of problematic internet use (PIU) in young people undergoing inpatient treatment in child and adolescent psychiatry centers. The aims of our study were thus (a) to assess the frequency of comorbid PIU in a sample of adolescent psychiatric inpatients and compare it with a control group of nonreferred adolescents and (b) to gain insights into correlations between PIU and psychiatric comorbidities.<italic> Methods.</italic> 111 child and adolescent psychiatry inpatients (CAP-IP, mean age 15.1±1.4 years; female : male 72.4% : 27.6%) undergoing routine psychodiagnostics were screened for the presence of PIU. The widely used Compulsive Internet Use Scale (CIUS) was chosen for this purpose. Prevalence rates of PIU were then compared to matched nonreferred control subjects from a school sample. Additionally, comorbidities of inpatients with PIU were compared to inpatients without PIU.<italic> Results.</italic> Our inpatient sample showed a much higher prevalence of PIU than that found in previous populational samples of young people. Compared with a matched school sample, addictive internet use was 7.8 times higher and problematic internet use 3.3 times higher among our adolescent sample. PIU was significantly associated with characteristic patterns of psychopathology, that is, suicidality, difficulties in establishing stable and consolidated identity, and peer victimization.<italic> Conclusion.</italic> PIU among adolescents undergoing inpatient psychiatric treatment is much more frequent than among their peers in the general population and is associated with specific patterns of psychopathology. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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