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ArticleJournal of behavioral addictions2018

Including gaming disorder in the ICD-11: The need to do so from a clinical and public health perspective.

Hans-Jürgen Rumpf, Sophia Achab, Joël Billieux, Henrietta Bowden-Jones, Natacha Carragher, Zsolt Demetrovics, Susumu Higuchi, Daniel L King, Karl Mann, Marc Potenza and 44 more

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Article in Journal of behavioral addictions, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 131 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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54 authors.

Hans-Jürgen Rumpf1 Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Lübeck , Lübeck, Germany.
Sophia Achab2 Department of Mental Health and Psychiatry, Service of Addictology, Geneva University Hospitals , Geneva, Switzerland.
Joël Billieux4 Addictive and Compulsive Behaviours Lab, Institute for Health and Behaviour, University of Luxembourg , Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.
Henrietta Bowden-Jones5 Central North West London NHS Trust, Division of Brain Science, Imperial College London , London, UK.
Natacha Carragher6 Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, WHO Headquarters , Geneva, Switzerland.
Zsolt Demetrovics7 Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) , Budapest, Hungary.
Susumu Higuchi8 National Hospital Organization Kurihama Medical and Addiction Center , Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan.
Daniel L King9 School of Psychology, The University of Adelaide , Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Karl Mann10 Central Institute of Mental Health, University of Heidelberg , Mannheim, Germany.
Marc Potenza11 Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Child Study Center, The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, Connecticut Mental Health Center, Yale University School of Medicine , New Haven, CT, USA.
John B Saunders12 Centre for Youth Substance Abuse Research, The University of Queensland , Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Max Abbott13 Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology , Auckland, New Zealand.
Atul Ambekar14 Department of Psychiatry, National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences , New Delhi, India.
Osman Tolga Aricak15 Department of Psychology, Hasan Kalyoncu University , Gaziantep, Turkey.
Sawitri Assanangkornchai16 Epidemiology Unit and Centre for Alcohol Studies, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University , Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand.
Norharlina Bahar17 Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Hospital Selayang , Selangor, Malaysia.
Guilherme Borges18 National Institute of Psychiatry , Mexico City, Mexico.
Matthias Brand19 General Psychology: Cognition Center for Behavioral Addiction Research, University Duisburg-Essen , Duisburg, Germany.
Elda Mei-Lo Chan21 Integrated Centre on Addiction Prevention and Treatment, Tung Wah Group of Hospitals , Hong Kong SAR, China.
Thomas Chung22 Department of Health, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Jeff Derevensky23 Applied Child Psychology and Department of Psychiatry, McGill University , Montreal, Canada.
Ahmad El Kashef24 National Rehabilitation Center , Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Michael Farrell25 National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales , Randwick, NSW, Australia.
Naomi A Fineberg26 Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust , Hertfordshire, UK.
Claudia Gandin28 National Centre on Addiction and Doping, National Observatory on Alcohol, Italian National Institute of Health , Rome, Italy.
Douglas A Gentile29 Department of Psychology, Iowa State University , Ames, IA, USA.
Mark D Griffiths30 International Gaming Research Unit, Psychology Department, Nottingham Trent University , Nottingham, UK.
Anna E Goudriaan31 Department of Psychiatry, Academic Medical Center, Mental Health Care, University of Amsterdam , Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Marie Grall-Bronnec32 Addictology and Psychiatry Department, CHU Nantes , Nantes, France.
Wei Hao33 Mental Health Institute of the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University , Changsha, Hunan, China.
David C Hodgins34 Department of Psychology, The University of Calgary , Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Patrick Ip35 Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, Department of Paediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, The University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong SAR, China.
Orsolya Király7 Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) , Budapest, Hungary.
Hae Kook Lee36 Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea , Seoul, South Korea.
Daria Kuss30 International Gaming Research Unit, Psychology Department, Nottingham Trent University , Nottingham, UK.
Jeroen S Lemmens37 Center for Research on Children, Adolescents, and the Media, Amsterdam School of Communication Research, University of Amsterdam , Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Jiang Long33 Mental Health Institute of the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University , Changsha, Hunan, China.
Olatz Lopez-Fernandez30 International Gaming Research Unit, Psychology Department, Nottingham Trent University , Nottingham, UK.
Satoko Mihara8 National Hospital Organization Kurihama Medical and Addiction Center , Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan.
Nancy M Petry38 Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut School of Medicine , Farmington, CT, USA.
Halley M Pontes30 International Gaming Research Unit, Psychology Department, Nottingham Trent University , Nottingham, UK.
Afarin Rahimi-Movaghar39 Iranian National Center for Addiction Studies, Tehran University of Medical Sciences , Tehran, Iran.
Florian Rehbein40 Criminological Research Institute Lower Saxony , Hannover, Germany.
Jürgen Rehm41 Institute for Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addictions and Mental Health , Toronto, Canada.
Emanuele Scafato44 National Observatory on Alcohol, National Institute of Health , Rome, Italy.
Manoi Sharma45 National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences , Bengaluru, India.
Daniel Spritzer46 Study Group on Technological Addictions , Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Dan J Stein47 Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, SA MRC Unit on Risk & Resilience in Mental Disorders, University of Cape Town , Cape Town, South Africa.
Philip Tam48 Network for Internet Investigation and Research in Australia, The Delta Clinic , Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Aviv Weinstein49 Department of Behavioral Science, University of Ariel , Ariel, Israel.
Hans-Ulrich Wittchen43 Epidemiological Research Unit, Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Technical University Dresden , Dresden, Germany.
Klaus Wölfling50 Outpatient Clinic for Behavioral Addiction, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg University , Mainz, Germany.
Daniele Zullino2 Department of Mental Health and Psychiatry, Service of Addictology, Geneva University Hospitals , Geneva, Switzerland.
Vladimir Poznyak6 Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, WHO Headquarters , Geneva, Switzerland.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The proposed introduction of gaming disorder (GD) in the 11th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) has led to a lively debate over the past year. Besides the broad support for the decision in the academic press, a recent publication by van Rooij et al. (2018) repeated the criticism raised against the inclusion of GD in ICD-11 by Aarseth et al. (2017). We argue that this group of researchers fails to recognize the clinical and public health considerations, which support the WHO perspective. It is important to recognize a range of biases that may influence this debate; in particular, the gaming industry may wish to diminish its responsibility by claiming that GD is not a public health problem, a position which maybe supported by arguments from scholars based in media psychology, computer games research, communication science, and related disciplines. However, just as with any other disease or disorder in the ICD-11, the decision whether or not to include GD is based on clinical evidence and public health needs. Therefore, we reiterate our conclusion that including GD reflects the essence of the ICD and will facilitate treatment and prevention for those who need it.

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Behavior, AddictiveDisruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct DisordersVideo GamesHumansInternational Classification of DiseasesPublic Healthclinical perspectivegaming disorderICD-11public health

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PMCPMC6426367

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