The association between internet addiction and psychiatric co-morbidity: a meta-analysis

BMC Psychiatry

Kwok-Kei Mak¹  Hiroko Watanabe²  Ching-Man Lai⁵  Lawrence T Lam⁶  Paul S Yip⁴  Cecilia Cheng⁷  Yanxia Lu³  Fang Pan⁸  Anastasia H Toh³  Tammy Y Tsang³  Melvyn WB Zhang³  Roger C Ho³ 

[1]Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong

[2]Department of Children and Women’s Health, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

[3]Department of Psychological Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

[4]Department of Social Work and Social Administration, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

[5]Department of Psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

[6]Discipline of Pediatrics and Child Health, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

[7]Department of Psychology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

[8]Department of Medical Psychology, Shandong University, Shandong, China

关键词: Hyperactivity;    Attention deficit;    Alcohol abuse;    Anxiety;    Depression;    Internet addiction;   

Others  :  793906
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-244X-14-183

 received in 2014-05-21, accepted in 2014-06-11,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

This study evaluates the association between Internal Addiction (IA) and psychiatric co-morbidity in the literature.

Methods

Meta-analyses were conducted on cross-sectional, case–control and cohort studies which examined the relationship between IA and psychiatric co-morbidity. Selected studies were extracted from major online databases. The inclusion criteria are as follows: 1) studies conducted on human subjects; 2) IA and psychiatric co-morbidity were assessed by standardised questionnaires; and 3) availability of adequate information to calculate the effect size. Random-effects models were used to calculate the aggregate prevalence and the pooled odds ratios (OR).

Results

Eight studies comprising 1641 patients suffering from IA and 11210 controls were included. Our analyses demonstrated a significant and positive association between IA and alcohol abuse (OR = 3.05, 95% CI = 2.14-4.37, z = 6.12, P < 0.001), attention deficit and hyperactivity (OR = 2.85, 95% CI = 2.15-3.77, z = 7.27, P < 0.001), depression (OR = 2.77, 95% CI = 2.04-3.75, z = 6.55, P < 0.001) and anxiety (OR = 2.70, 95% CI = 1.46-4.97, z = 3.18, P = 0.001).

Conclusions

IA is significantly associated with alcohol abuse, attention deficit and hyperactivity, depression and anxiety.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Ho et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.