Hakami Alqassem Y, Ahmad Rami Ghazi, Alsharif Abdullah, Ashqar Alaa, AlHarbi Fahad A, Sayes Mohammed, Bafail Anas, Alqrni Ali, Khan Mohammed A
College of Medicine, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Front Psychiatry. 2021 Aug 17;12:727798. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.727798. eCollection 2021.
Behavioral addiction is identified as any compulsive, repeated, and persistent behavior that leads to significant and functionally impairing harm or distress. The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of internet, video-gaming, and pornography addictions among medical students in Western region. In addition, we intend to investigate the relationship between these behavioral addictions with stress and anxiety. Our study was a cross-sectional study with a sample size of 225. The study participants were medical students in their 3rd, 4th, and 5th academic years from five different medical colleges in Western region. The questionnaire included demographics and adapted five different pre-validated scales: Young's Internet Addiction Test - Short Version (IAT-SV), Internet Gaming Disorder Scale 9 - Short Form (IGDS9-SF), (PPC scale), Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), and Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item scale (GAD-7). The IAT-SV scale showed: 71 (31.6%) of the participants had normal internet usage, 51 (22.7%) participants showed problematic usage, and 103 (45.8%) used the internet pathologically. The IGDS9-SF scale had observed the following values: 220 participants (97.8%) were non-disordered, and 5 participants (2.2%) were found to be disordered. Statistical analysis showed a highly significant association between stress and problematic pornography consumption ( < 0.01), and internet addiction ( <0.001). Moreover, there was a significant association between anxiety and internet gaming disorder ( < 0.01). This study showed high prevalence of internet addiction and low prevalence of internet gaming disorder. Also, it gave more understanding to a possible association between these behavioral addictions with stress and anxiety.
行为成瘾被定义为任何导致严重且功能受损的伤害或痛苦的强迫性、重复性和持续性行为。本研究的目的是确定西部地区医学生中网络、视频游戏和色情成瘾的患病率。此外，我们打算调查这些行为成瘾与压力和焦虑之间的关系。我们的研究是一项横断面研究，样本量为225。研究参与者是来自西部地区五所不同医学院的大三、大四和大五学年的医学生。问卷包括人口统计学信息，并采用了五个不同的预先验证的量表：杨氏网络成瘾测试简版（IAT-SV）、网络游戏障碍量表9简版（IGDS9-SF）、（PPC量表）、感知压力量表（PSS）和广泛性焦虑障碍7项量表（GAD-7）。IAT-SV量表显示：71名（31.6%）参与者网络使用正常，51名（22.7%）参与者显示有问题使用，103名（45.8%）参与者存在病理性网络使用。IGDS9-SF量表观察到以下结果：220名参与者（97.8%）无紊乱，5名参与者（2.2%）被发现有紊乱。统计分析表明，压力与问题色情消费（<0.01）和网络成瘾（<0.001）之间存在高度显著关联。此外，焦虑与网络游戏障碍之间存在显著关联（<0.01）。本研究显示网络成瘾患病率高，网络游戏障碍患病率低。此外，它还让我们对这些行为成瘾与压力和焦虑之间可能的关联有了更多了解。
