Proposed diagnostic criteria and the screening and diagnosing tool of Internet addiction in college students
Journal
Comprehensive Psychiatry
Journal Volume
50
Journal Issue
4
Pages
378-384
Date Issued
2009
Author(s)
Abstract
The aims of this study were to develop diagnostic criteria of Internet addiction for college students (DC-IA-C) with diagnostic interviews and to establish the optimal cutoff points of the Chen Internet Addiction Scale (CIAS) for the purposes of screening for and making the diagnosis of Internet addiction. A total of 216 college students (132 male and 84 female) were recruited in the study. The results demonstrated that 5/6 cutoff points of criteria A in DC-IA-C had the best diagnostic accuracy (95.9%). Besides, 63/64 and 67/68 cutoff points of the CIAS were evaluated to be the best screening and diagnostic cutoff points, respectively. The DC-IA-C can provide health care professionals with a means to diagnose and communicate about Internet addiction among college students, and the screening and diagnostic cutoff points of CIAS could provide a screening instrument or a discriminative instrument in surveys for Internet addiction among college students. ? 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Other Subjects
adolescent; adult; article; chen internet addiction scale; clinical assessment tool; college student; diagnostic accuracy; diagnostic value; discriminant analysis; female; health survey; human; internet addiction; interview; major clinical study; male; practice guideline; psychological rating scale; reference value; Adolescent; Adolescent Behavior; Adult; Behavior, Addictive; Factor Analysis, Statistical; Female; Humans; Internet; Male; Mass Screening; Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; Psychometrics; Reproducibility of Results; ROC Curve; Sensitivity and Specificity; Students; Universities; User-Computer Interface
Type
journal article