Sahanapriya G K, Bijulakshmi P, Rajendhiran Gopi, Mathumathi S, Ramasubramanian Vikhram, Kannan M
Dept. of Psychiatry, Ahana Hospitals, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Director of Research, M.S. Chellamuthu Trust And Research Foundation, K.K. Nagar, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Indian J Psychol Med. 2021 Sep;43(5):422-427. doi: 10.1177/0253717621999761. Epub 2021 May 3.
The internet can cause adverse psychological issues in children whose parents show less competence because of their mental illness. This study aims to find the level of internet addiction among adolescents who have a parent with psychiatric illness and its relationship to the type and duration of their parent's illness.
This study was conducted among 283 adolescents whose parents suffered from mental illness. They were selected from the inpatient and outpatient services of a neuropsychiatric hospital in India. Informed written consent was obtained from the parent not suffering from psychiatric illness, and a semistructured interview accommodating various factors and statements from the internet addiction test was used to find the level of internet addiction.
A total of 79.5% of adolescents showed scores indicative of internet addiction, with 14.5% of the participants having mild levels of addiction, 60.8% having moderate levels of addiction, and 4.2% having severe levels of addiction. There is a significant relationship between internet addiction scores and the type and duration of psychiatric illness in a parent.
The internet addiction scores in adolescents have a significant relationship to the various types of illnesses and the duration of illness of their parents.
互联网可能会给父母因精神疾病而能力较弱的孩子带来不良心理问题。本研究旨在了解父母患有精神疾病的青少年的网络成瘾程度，以及其与父母疾病类型和病程的关系。
本研究对283名父母患有精神疾病的青少年进行。他们选自印度一家神经精神病医院的住院部和门诊部。获得了未患精神疾病的父母的书面知情同意书，并使用一份包含互联网成瘾测试中各种因素和陈述的半结构化访谈来确定网络成瘾程度。
共有79.5%的青少年得分表明存在网络成瘾，其中14.5%的参与者为轻度成瘾，60.8%为中度成瘾，4.2%为重度成瘾。网络成瘾得分与父母精神疾病的类型和病程之间存在显著关系。
青少年的网络成瘾得分与父母的各种疾病类型和病程存在显著关系。
