Pathological internet use—an important comorbidity in child and adolescent psychiatry: prevalence and correlation patterns in a naturalistic sample of adolescent inpatients
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Background. Few studies have examined the prevalence of problematic internet use (PIU) in young people undergoing inpatient treatment in child and adolescent psychiatry centers. The aims of our study were thus (a) to assess the frequency of comorbid PIU in a sample of adolescent psychiatric inpatients and compare it with a control group of nonreferred adolescents and (b) to gain insights into correlations between PIU and psychiatric comorbidities. Methods. 111 child and adolescent psychiatry inpatients (CAP-IP, mean age 15.1±1.4 years; female : male 72.4% : 27.6%) undergoing routine psychodiagnostics were screened for the presence of PIU. The widely used Compulsive Internet Use Scale (CIUS) was chosen for this purpose. Prevalence rates of PIU were then compared to matched nonreferred control subjects from a school sample. Additionally, comorbidities of inpatients with PIU were compared to inpatients without PIU. Results. Our inpatient sample showed a much higher prevalence of PIU than that found in previous populational samples of young people. Compared with a matched school sample, addictive internet use was 7.8 times higher and problematic internet use 3.3 times higher among our adolescent sample. PIU was significantly associated with characteristic patterns of psychopathology, that is, suicidality, difficulties in establishing stable and consolidated identity, and peer victimization. Conclusion. PIU among adolescents undergoing inpatient psychiatric treatment is much more frequent than among their peers in the general population and is associated with specific patterns of psychopathology.
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Patients with PIU showed significantly more suicide attempts than patients without (χ2=13.78, P<0.001).
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- Authors
- Fuchs, M., Riedl, D., Bock, A., Rumpold, G., & Sevecke, K.
- Affiliations
- Innsbruck Medical University (AT)
- Corresponding author
- Fuchs, Martin
- Venue
- BioMed Research International
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2018
- Volume
- 2018
- Pages
- 1-10
- ISSN
- 1110-7243 (ISSN-L)
- 2314-6133
- 2314-6141
- PMC
- PMC5896356
- OpenAlex
- W2795191518
- Cited by
- 49
- References
- 63
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 1
- FWCI
- 11.94
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- BioMed Research International (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- Social Sciences › Education › Child Development and Digital Technology
- Keywords
- problematic internet use, compulsive internet use, adolescent inpatients, psychiatric comorbidity, prevalence, suicidality, identity construction, peer victimization, Compulsive Internet Use Scale, child and adolescent psychiatry
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Mental Disorders, Child, Child, Preschool, Female, Humans, Inpatients, Male, Comorbidity, Prevalence, Internet
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