Gaming disorder: Its delineation as an important condition for diagnosis, management, and prevention

John B Saunders¹, Wei Hao², Jiang Long², Daniel L King³, Karl Mann⁴, Mira Fauth-Bühler⁴, Hans-Jürgen Rumpf⁵, Henrietta Bowden-Jones⁶, Afarin Rahimi-Movaghar⁷, Thomas Chung⁸, Elda Chan⁹, Norharlina Bahar¹⁰, Sophia Achab¹¹, Hae Kook Lee¹², Marc Potenza¹³, Nancy Petry¹⁴, Daniel Spritzer¹⁵, Atul Ambekar¹⁶, Jeffrey Derevensky¹⁷, Mark D Griffiths¹⁸, Halley M Pontes¹⁸, Daria Kuss¹⁸, Susumu Higuchi¹⁹, Satoko Mihara¹⁹, Sawitri Assangangkornchai²⁰, Manoj Sharma²¹, Ahmad El Kashef²², Patrick Ip²³, Michael Farrell²⁴, Emanuele Scafato²⁵, Natacha Carragher²⁶, Vladimir Poznyak²⁶

Affiliations

¹ 1 Centre for Youth Substance Abuse Research, The University of Queensland , Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
² 2 Mental Health Institute of the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University , Changsha, Hunan, China.
³ 3 School of Psychology, The University of Adelaide , Adelaide, SA, Australia.
⁴ 4 Central Institute of Mental Health, University of Heidelberg , Mannheim, Germany.
⁵ 5 Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Lübeck , Lübeck, Germany.
⁶ 6 Central North West London NHS Trust and Division of Brain Science, Imperial College London , London, UK.
⁷ 7 Iranian National Center for Addiction Studies (INCAS), Tehran University of Medical Sciences , Tehran, Iran.
⁸ 8 Department of Health, Hong Kong SAR, China.
⁹ 9 Integrated Centre on Addiction Prevention and Treatment, Tung Wah Group of Hospitals , Hong Kong SAR, China.
¹⁰ 10 Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Hospital Selayang , Selangor, Malaysia.
¹¹ 11 Mental Health and Psychiatry Department, University Hospitals of Geneva , Geneva, Switzerland.
¹² 12 Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea , Seoul, South Korea.
¹³ 13 Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Child Study Center, and The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, Yale University School of Medicine, and Connecticut Mental Health Center , New Haven, CT, USA.
¹⁴ 14 Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut School of Medicine , Farmington, CT, USA.
¹⁵ 15 Study Group on Technological Addictions , Porto Alegre, Brazil.
¹⁶ 16 Department of Psychiatry, National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences , New Delhi, India.
¹⁷ 17 Applied Child Psychology and Department of Psychiatry, McGill University , Montreal, QC, Canada.
¹⁸ 18 International Gaming Research Unit, Psychology Department, Nottingham Trent University , Nottingham, UK.
¹⁹ 19 National Hospital Organization Kurihama Medical and Addiction Center , Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan.
²⁰ 20 Epidemiology Unit and Centre for Alcohol Studies, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University , Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand.
²¹ 21 National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences , Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
²² 22 National Rehabilitation Center , Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
²³ 23 Department of Paediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong, China.
²⁴ 24 National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales , Randwick, NSW, Australia.
²⁵ 25 National Observatory on Alcohol, National Institute of Health , Rome, Italy.
²⁶ 26 Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, WHO Headquarters , Geneva, Switzerland.

PMID: 28816494
PMCID: PMC5700714
DOI: 10.1556/2006.6.2017.039

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Gaming disorder: Its delineation as an important condition for diagnosis, management, and prevention

John B Saunders et al. J Behav Addict. 2017.

. 2017 Sep 1;6(3):271-279.

doi: 10.1556/2006.6.2017.039. Epub 2017 Aug 17.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ 1 Centre for Youth Substance Abuse Research, The University of Queensland , Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
² 2 Mental Health Institute of the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University , Changsha, Hunan, China.
³ 3 School of Psychology, The University of Adelaide , Adelaide, SA, Australia.
⁴ 4 Central Institute of Mental Health, University of Heidelberg , Mannheim, Germany.
⁵ 5 Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Lübeck , Lübeck, Germany.
⁶ 6 Central North West London NHS Trust and Division of Brain Science, Imperial College London , London, UK.
⁷ 7 Iranian National Center for Addiction Studies (INCAS), Tehran University of Medical Sciences , Tehran, Iran.
⁸ 8 Department of Health, Hong Kong SAR, China.
⁹ 9 Integrated Centre on Addiction Prevention and Treatment, Tung Wah Group of Hospitals , Hong Kong SAR, China.
¹⁰ 10 Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Hospital Selayang , Selangor, Malaysia.
¹¹ 11 Mental Health and Psychiatry Department, University Hospitals of Geneva , Geneva, Switzerland.
¹² 12 Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea , Seoul, South Korea.
¹³ 13 Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Child Study Center, and The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, Yale University School of Medicine, and Connecticut Mental Health Center , New Haven, CT, USA.
¹⁴ 14 Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut School of Medicine , Farmington, CT, USA.
¹⁵ 15 Study Group on Technological Addictions , Porto Alegre, Brazil.
¹⁶ 16 Department of Psychiatry, National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences , New Delhi, India.
¹⁷ 17 Applied Child Psychology and Department of Psychiatry, McGill University , Montreal, QC, Canada.
¹⁸ 18 International Gaming Research Unit, Psychology Department, Nottingham Trent University , Nottingham, UK.
¹⁹ 19 National Hospital Organization Kurihama Medical and Addiction Center , Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan.
²⁰ 20 Epidemiology Unit and Centre for Alcohol Studies, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University , Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand.
²¹ 21 National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences , Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
²² 22 National Rehabilitation Center , Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
²³ 23 Department of Paediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong, China.
²⁴ 24 National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales , Randwick, NSW, Australia.
²⁵ 25 National Observatory on Alcohol, National Institute of Health , Rome, Italy.
²⁶ 26 Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, WHO Headquarters , Geneva, Switzerland.

PMID: 28816494
PMCID: PMC5700714
DOI: 10.1556/2006.6.2017.039

Abstract

Online gaming has greatly increased in popularity in recent years, and with this has come a multiplicity of problems due to excessive involvement in gaming. Gaming disorder, both online and offline, has been defined for the first time in the draft of 11th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). National surveys have shown prevalence rates of gaming disorder/addiction of 10%-15% among young people in several Asian countries and of 1%-10% in their counterparts in some Western countries. Several diseases related to excessive gaming are now recognized, and clinics are being established to respond to individual, family, and community concerns, but many cases remain hidden. Gaming disorder shares many features with addictions due to psychoactive substances and with gambling disorder, and functional neuroimaging shows that similar areas of the brain are activated. Governments and health agencies worldwide are seeking for the effects of online gaming to be addressed, and for preventive approaches to be developed. Central to this effort is a need to delineate the nature of the problem, which is the purpose of the definitions in the draft of ICD-11.

Keywords: diagnosis; gaming addiction; gaming disorder; intervention.

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