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ผู้วิจัย/Authors: Donruedee Petchsuwan

ชื่อเรื่อง/Title: A Pattern of Computer Game Plaving and Addiction among Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Outpatients at Ramathibodi Hospital.

แหล่งที่มา/Source: Journal of Psychiatric Association Thailand. Vol. 53, No. 3, July-October 2008, page 258.

รายละเอียด / Details:

Objective: To study a pattern of computer game play and computer game addiction among patients at the child and adolescent psychiatric clinic, and to compare the behavioral and emotional problems between patients with and without computer game addiction. Methods: The samples were patients, aged 6-18 years, at the child and adolescent psychiatric clinic at Ramathibodi hospital. Patients were invited to complete 2 questionnaires, the questionnaire for demographic data and pattern of computer game play and the Problem Video Game Playing (PVP) questionnaire, Thai version. Parents were invited to complete the Thai Youth Checklist (TYC) questionnaire. Results: One hundred forty two child and adolescent psychiatric patients, 106 males (74.6%) and 36 females (25.4%), were willing to participate in this study. Their mean age was 11.5 + 2.8 years. 82 (57.7%) were primary school students and (27.5%) were secondary school students. They were 73 (51.4%) patients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and 69 (48.6%) patients with other psychiatric diagnoses. 128 patients (90.1%) played computer game during the past year. Patients at the child and adolescent psychiatric clinic played computer game 9.2 + 13.6 hr/week during the semester period and 10.2 + 16.4 hour/week during school break. 20 (14.5%) met the criteria for computer game addiction (18 males (17.6%) and 2 females (5.6%). Children and adolescents with ADHD and other diagnoses did not differ in the rate of computer game addiction (16.7% and 12.1%, respectively, p=0.45). The patients with computer game addiction did not play computer game significantly more than patients without computer game addiction both during semester period (13.2 + 18.5 vs 8.4 + 12.6 hr/week, respectively, t = 1.4 df = 119, p= 0.16) and school break (13.7 + 18.3 vs 9.4 + 15.9 hr/week, respectively, t = 1.1 df = 128, p = 0.28) They also did not have aggressive behaviors significantly more than those without computer game addiction. Conclusion: Child and adolescent psychiatric patients at Ramathibodi hospital played computer game 9.2 + 13.6 hr/week during the semester period and 10.2 + 16.4 hour/week during school break. 14.5% met the criteria for computer game addiction. Children and adolescents with ADHD did not differ in the rate of computer game addiction from patients with other diagnoses. The patients with computer game addiction did not have aggressive behaviors significantly more than those without computer game addiction.

Keywords: child and adolescent patients, computer game addiction, ADHD

ปีที่เผยแพร่/Year: 2008

Address: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, 10400

Code: 201000042

ISSN/ISBN: 0125-6985

Country of publication: Thailand

Language: English

Category: Abstract

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