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Risk factors of problematic video game use among teenagers in Sfax

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

L. Cherif ,
C. Sahnoun ,
K. Khemakhem ,
H. Ayadi ,
A. Walha ,
Y. Moalla ,
I. Hadjkacem  and
F. Ghribi
L. Cherif
Affiliation:
EPS Hédi Chaker, Child and Adolescent Department, Sfax, Tunisia
C. Sahnoun*
Affiliation:
EPS Hédi Chaker, Child and Adolescent Department, Sfax, Tunisia
K. Khemakhem
Affiliation:
EPS Hédi Chaker, Child and Adolescent Department, Sfax, Tunisia
H. Ayadi
Affiliation:
EPS Hédi Chaker, Child and Adolescent Department, Sfax, Tunisia
A. Walha
Affiliation:
EPS Hédi Chaker, Child and Adolescent Department, Sfax, Tunisia
Y. Moalla
Affiliation:
EPS Hédi Chaker, Child and Adolescent Department, Sfax, Tunisia
I. Hadjkacem
Affiliation:
EPS Hédi Chaker, Child and Adolescent Department, Sfax, Tunisia
F. Ghribi
Affiliation:
EPS Hédi Chaker, Child and Adolescent Department, Sfax, Tunisia
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Objective

To identify correlates that might constitute risk factors for problematic video game use (PVU) among urban Tunisian secondary school students.

Methods

This multivariate cross-sectional study was carried out on 587 secondary school students, aged 14 to 20 years. They were randomly selected from seven secondary schools in the urban area of Sfax. The self-administered Fisher's nine-item questionnaire was used in this survey. To identify an associated problematic internet use video game addiction, Young's eight-item questionnaire was used. A self-administered, anonymous questionnaire covered socio-demographic, individual and family data.

Results

The prevalence of PVU was 14.01%. In multivariate logistic regression analysis, we found that the individual risk factors for problematic video game use were anxiety symptoms (P = 0.034) and an associated problematic Internet use (P < 0.001). Playing sport was a protective factor (P = 0.011). The poor relationships within the family (P = 0.001), the lack of parental supervision of time spent on playing video game (P < 0.001) and mother profession as mid-to upper level manager (P = 0.002), predicted PVU.

Conclusion

The identification of risk factors can help to determine individuals at high risk, and alert mental health providers to be careful to screen these patients for PVU. Total avoidance of the Internet is unrealistic and inadvisable; but a sensibilisation outreach for youth, their families and health professionals may help to limit the onset of PVU among young people.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
e-Poster viewing: child and adolescent psychiatry
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue S1: Abstract of the 25th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2017 , pp. S453
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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