Internet abuse addiction and its effect on public health and social and physical pain.

Internet abuse and addiction had become a problem among youth around the world. This addiction not only affects the physical health of users, but also their mental health. This phenomenon can lead to different types of physical and mental pain that will affect public health as well. In this paper we...

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Published in:Journal of Pain Management Vol. 15; no. 2; pp. 147 - 151
Main Authors: Mirzaei, Farahnaz, Alizadeh, Tayebeh
Format: Journal Article
Published: Nova Science Publishers, Inc. 2022
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
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Summary:Internet abuse and addiction had become a problem among youth around the world. This addiction not only affects the physical health of users, but also their mental health. This phenomenon can lead to different types of physical and mental pain that will affect public health as well. In this paper we have tried to gather related data among published papers with Google Scholar, Web of Science and Scopus as the main sources for this review. The outcome of this analysis confirmed the need to pay attention to internet use among youth in order to prevent different types of pain not only among the individual, but also among the society.