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

John B. Saunders; Wei Hao; Jiang Long; Daniel L. King; Karl Mann; Mira Fauth-Bühler; Hans Jürgen Rumpf; Henrietta Bowden-Jones; Afarin Rahimi-Movaghar; Thomas Chung; Elda Chan; Norharlina Bahar; Sophia Achab; Hae Kook Lee; Marc Potenza; Nancy Petry; Daniel Spritzer; Atul Ambekar; Jeffrey Derevensky; Mark D. Griffiths; Halley M. Pontes; Daria Kuss; Susumu Higuchi; Satoko Mihara; Sawitri Assangangkornchai; Manoj Sharma; Ahmad El Kashef; Patrick Ip; Michael Farrell; Emanuele Scafato; Natacha Carragher; Vladimir Poznyak

doi:10.1556/2006.6.2017.039

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

John B. Saunders
, Wei Hao
, Jiang Long
, Daniel L. King
, Karl Mann
, Mira Fauth-Bühler
, Hans Jürgen Rumpf
, Henrietta Bowden-Jones
, Afarin Rahimi-Movaghar
, Thomas Chung
, Elda Chan
, Norharlina Bahar
, Sophia Achab
, Hae Kook Lee
, Marc Potenza
, Nancy Petry
, Daniel Spritzer
, Atul Ambekar
, Jeffrey Derevensky
, Mark D. Griffiths

Halley M. Pontes, Daria Kuss, Susumu Higuchi, Satoko Mihara, Sawitri Assangangkornchai, Manoj Sharma, Ahmad El Kashef, Patrick Ip, Michael Farrell, Emanuele Scafato, Natacha Carragher, Vladimir Poznyak

Department of Psychiatry

University of Queensland
Central South University
University of Adelaide
Heidelberg University
University of Lübeck
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Department of Health
Tung Wah Group of Hospitals
Hospital Selayang
University of Geneva
Yale University
University of Connecticut
Study Group on Technological Addictions
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
McGill University
Nottingham Trent University
National Hospital Organization Kurihama Medical and Addiction Center
Prince of Songkla University
National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences
National Rehabilitation Center
The University of Hong Kong
University of New South Wales
Istituto Superiore di Sanita
World Health Organization

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	271-279
Number of pages	9
Journal	Journal of Behavioral Addictions
Volume	6
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.6.2017.039
State	Published - 2017

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Gaming addiction
Gaming disorder
Intervention

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Saunders, J. B., Hao, W., Long, J., King, D. L., Mann, K., Fauth-Bühler, M., Rumpf, H. J., Bowden-Jones, H., Rahimi-Movaghar, A., Chung, T., Chan, E., Bahar, N., Achab, S., Lee, H. K., Potenza, M., Petry, N., Spritzer, D., Ambekar, A., Derevensky, J., ... Poznyak, V. (2017). Gaming disorder: Its delineation as an important condition for diagnosis, management, and prevention. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 6(3), 271-279. https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.6.2017.039

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