@article{ref1,
title="The association between internet addiction and self-injurious behaviour among adolescents",
journal="Injury prevention",
year="2009",
author="Lam, Lawrence T. and Peng, Z. and Mai, J. and Jing, Jin",
volume="15",
number="6",
pages="403-408",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between internet addiction and self-injurious behaviour (SIB) in adolescence. METHODS: Population-based cross-sectional survey of 1618 high school students aged 13-18 years in Guangzhou city, Guangdong Province, PR China. Deliberate SIB was measured using self-reported questionnaire; internet addiction was assessed using the Internet Addiction Test (IAT). RESULTS: 263 (16.3%) participants reported having committed some form of SIB in the past 6 months. 73 (4.5%) had committed SIB 6 times or more, and 157 (9.7%) 1-5 times. The majority of respondents were classified as normal users of the internet (n = 1392, 89.2%), with 158 (10.2%) moderately and 10 (0.6%) severely addicted to the internet. After adjusting for potential confounders, the odds ratio for SIB was 2.0 (95% CI 1.1 to 3.7) for those who were classified as moderately and severely addicted to the internet when compared to the normal group. CONCLUSIONS: SIB is common in adolescence in the study population in China. Addiction to the internet is detrimental to mental health and increases the risk of self-injury among adolescents. Clinicians need to be aware of potential co-morbidities of other addictions among adolescent self-injured patients.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1353-8047",
doi="10.1136/ip.2009.021949",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ip.2009.021949"
}