A new study found that 82% of 17- to 29-year-olds with ADHD had gaming disorder and 59% had Internet gaming disorder, suggesting that the diagnostic criteria for IGD/GD could identify patients with attention deficit.
: More than half of the participants with IGD also had ADHD. Almost three-quarters of study participants with ADHD had IGD, compared to 30% among participants without ADHD. A staggering 82% of individuals with GD had ADHD, whereas just 21% of participants without GD had ADHD. More than half of the participants with ADHD had GD., such as ADHD, between 136 clinical and 165 general gamer groups based in South Korea. Study participants ranged from in age from 17 to 29 years old.
Researchers noted that members of the clinical group had fewer years of education, spent more time gaming on weekdays and weekends with many online friends, and were likelier to recognize their problematic gaming than were members of the general gamer group. The clinical group also spent fewer years engaged in Internet gaming than did the general gamer group. Whereas the general gamer group played for entertainment, the clinical group gamed for achievement and coping.
Gaming habits and patterns were assessed using self-reported questionnaires and the opinions of people who were important or close to study participants.The study’s researchers recommended that care providers consider the possibility of ADHD when diagnosing a patient with IGD or GD. “These findings may imply that diagnostic criteria for IGD could identify patients with ADHD; in other words, it is difficult to distinguish patients with IGD/GD from ADHD patients using IGD/GD diagnostic criteria,” researchers wrote. “Clarification is needed as to whether these results are due to the inadequacy of diagnostic criteria, whether treatment-seeking gaming behavior is driven by comorbid ADHD, or whether the problematic gaming behavior itself is a manifestation of the underlying ADHD.
Despite several study limitations, including recall basis and cultural factors, the researchers said their findings confirmed a close association between ADHD and IGD/GD in line with previous studies.
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