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Pathological Internet Use-An Important Comorbidity in Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry: Prevalence and Correlation Patterns in a Naturalistic Sample of
Adolescent Inpatients
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Fuchs M
; Riedl D
; Bock A
; Rumpold G
; Sevecke K
Biomed Res Int
2018[]; 2018
(?): 1629147
PMID29789775
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BACKGROUND: 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. METHODS: 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. RESULTS: 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. CONCLUSION: 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.
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