Public health approaches and policy changes after the inclusion of gaming disorder in ICD-11: global needs
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has added gaming disorder to ICD-11 as a clinical condition associated with distress or interference with personal functioning. This inclusion leads to clinical and public health benefits, such as harmonising terminology, offering clinical landmarks and improving monitoring capabilities and data comparability. Training health professionals to identify and manage gaming disorder is a key challenge for countries. In the present paper we compiled opinions from different countries around the globe on their state of preparedness and needs to tackle this issue. The global views on the topic feed arguments for developing an evidence-based and cross-cultural training tool for gaming disorder management by health professionals.
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Government support for research programs and public health responses to gaming disorder have varied greatly by region.
“Government support for research programs and public health responses to gaming disorder have varied greatly by region 217 .”
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The International responses section (page unavailable) explicitly says national responses to gaming disorder differ and gives examples of differing public-health policies. The USA case mentions government interest in research, but the paper does not establish that government support for research programs varies greatly across regions. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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- Authors
- Long, J., Bhad, R., Potenza, M. N., Orsolini, L., Phan, V., Kanabar, M., & Achab, S.
- Affiliations
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University (CN)
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences (IN)
- Yale University (US)
- Marche Polytechnic University (IT)
- Eastern Health (AU)
- Kaiser Permanente (US)
- University of Geneva (CH)
- Venue
- BJPsych International
- Publisher
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Published
- 2021-12-09
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 63-66
- ISSN
- 2056-4740 (ISSN-L)
- 2058-6264
- PMC
- PMC9540648
- OpenAlex
- W4200369025
- Cited by
- 35
- References
- 7
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 4
- FWCI
- 5.54
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Locations
- BJPsych International (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- Università Politecnica delle Marche (Università Politecnica delle Marche) (submittedVersion)
- Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (UL1TR001863)
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Gambling Behavior and Treatments
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Keywords
- gaming disorder, ICD-11, public health approach, health policy, health professions education, global preparedness, diagnostic classification
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