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ArticleJournal of behavioral addictions2020

Considering existing classic and contemporary proposals for preventing online addiction problems: Some old recipes for new problems. •.

Olatz Lopez-Fernandez

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Article in Journal of behavioral addictions, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Emerging Health and Education Issues Related to Internet Technologies and Addictive Problems.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Olatz Lopez-FernandezMonash Addiction Research Centre, Turning Point, Easter Health Clinical School, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-4294-9156

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This commentary examines the proposed framework in relation to current policy options and preventive strategies and adds classical prevention and ecological models to tackle internet use-related addiction problems. Specifically, it highlights the preventive developments regarding contributions to promote the healthy use of technologies, and the need of designing and testing prevention strategies targeting the incidence, prevalence and severity of these problems at all population levels. In summary, to start preventing and minimising harms due to the problematic and addictive use of emerging technologies, we already have old models we can apply to these new problems to ensure secure behaviours through the technologies, and enhance users' wellness and quality of life.

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Behavior, AddictiveQuality of LifeHealth StatusHumansInternetPrevalenceTechnologyharm minimisationinternet addictioninternet use-related addiction problemspoliciespreventionpublic health

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PMID33242026
PMCPMC8969733

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