TY - JOUR
PY - 2023//
TI - Internet gaming disorder does not predict mood, anxiety or substance use disorders in university students: a one-year follow-up study
JO - International journal of environmental research and public health
A1 - Borges, Guilherme
A1 - Benjet, Corina
A1 - Orozco, Ricardo
A1 - Albor, Yesica
A1 - Contreras, Eunice V.
A1 - Monroy-Velasco, Iris R.
A1 - Hernández-Uribe, Praxedis C.
A1 - Báez-Mansur, Patricia M.
A1 - Covarrubias Diaz Couder, María A.
A1 - Quevedo-Chávez, Guillermo E.
A1 - Gutiérrez-García, Raúl A.
A1 - Machado, Nydia
SP - e2063
EP - e2063
VL - 20
IS - 3
N2 - We seek to evaluate whether Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) among university students in Mexico during their first year at university predicts a long list of mental disorders a year later, controlling for baseline mental health disorders as well as demographics. This is a prospective cohort study with a one-year follow-up period conducted during the 2018-2019 academic year and followed up during the 2019-2020 academic year at six Mexican universities. Participants were first-year university students (n = 1741) who reported symptoms compatible with an IGD diagnosis at entry (baseline). Outcomes are seven mental disorders (mania, hypomania, and major depressive episodes; generalized anxiety disorder and panic disorder; alcohol use disorder and drug use disorder), and three groups of mental disorders (mood, anxiety, and substance use disorders) at the end of the one-year follow-up. Fully adjusted models, that included baseline controls for groups of mental disorders, rendered all associations null. The association between baseline IGD and all disorders and groups of disorders at follow-up was close to one, suggesting a lack of longitudinal impact of IGD on mental disorders. Conflicting results from available longitudinal studies on the role of IGD in the development of mental disorders warrant further research. Language: en
LA - en
SN - 1661-7827
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032063
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