Masi Laura, Abadie Pascale, Herba Catherine, Emond Mutsuko, Gingras Marie-Pier, Amor Leila Ben
Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux du Nord-de-l'Île-de-Montréal (Hôpital-Rivière-Des-Prairies), Department of Psychiatry and Addictology of Université de Montréal (UdeM), Research Center of the Sainte-Justine University Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux du Nord-de-l'Île-de-Montréal (Hôpital-Rivière-Des-Prairies), Department of Psychiatry and Addictology of Université de Montréal (UdeM), Montreal, QC, Canada.
Front Pediatr. 2021 Mar 12;9:632272. doi: 10.3389/fped.2021.632272. eCollection 2021.
Video game addiction in young children is relevant, but it is especially important for children with ADHD. In order to obtain more data about the use of video games by Canadian children, and in particular by ADHD children, we explored the modalities of use (playtime, addiction score and usage by age) and compared them between ADHD and non-ADHD children. We then examined associations between addiction and ADHD symptoms and explored innovative results about the gender impact. Our study was cross-sectional, multicenter in child psychiatrist departments, exploratory and descriptive. We recruited three groups of children aged 4-12 years: the ADHD Group, the Clinical-Control Group and the Community-Control Group. For each group, the material used consisted of questionnaires completed by one of the parents. Data collection took place from December 2016 to August 2018 in Montreal ( = 280). Our study highlighted a vulnerability in ADHD children: they would exhibit more addictive behaviors with respect to video games (Addiction score: 1.1025 in ADHD Group vs. 0.6802 in Community-Control Group) and prolonged periods of use. We also observed a correlation between the severity of ADHD symptoms and excessive use of video games ( = 0.000). Children with severe ADHD showed significantly higher addiction scores and, in a multiple regression analysis a combination of gender and ADHD explained the excessive use of video games.
幼儿的电子游戏成瘾问题值得关注，对于患有注意力缺陷多动障碍（ADHD）的儿童而言尤为重要。为了获取更多关于加拿大儿童，尤其是ADHD儿童使用电子游戏的数据，我们探究了使用方式（游戏时间、成瘾得分及年龄使用情况），并在ADHD儿童和非ADHD儿童之间进行了比较。然后，我们研究了成瘾与ADHD症状之间的关联，并探索了关于性别影响的创新结果。我们的研究是横断面研究，在儿童精神科部门多中心开展，具有探索性和描述性。我们招募了三组4至12岁的儿童：ADHD组、临床对照组和社区对照组。对于每组儿童，所使用的材料是由一位家长填写的问卷。数据收集于2016年12月至2018年8月在蒙特利尔进行（ = 280）。我们的研究突出了ADHD儿童的易感性：他们在电子游戏方面表现出更多的成瘾行为（成瘾得分：ADHD组为1.1025，社区对照组为0.6802）以及更长的游戏时间。我们还观察到ADHD症状的严重程度与过度使用电子游戏之间存在相关性（ = 0.000）。患有重度ADHD的儿童显示出显著更高的成瘾得分，并且在多元回归分析中，性别和ADHD的组合解释了电子游戏的过度使用情况。
