Problematic online gaming and the COVID-19 pandemic

King, Daniel L.; Delfabbro, Paul; Billieux, Joël; Potenza, Marc N.

doi:10.1556/2006.2020.00016

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“…A recent study found screen exposure to increase by 4 h/day among Italian children and adolescents during Covid-19 strict confinement (30). Furthermore, online gaming and streaming activity have been observed to rise in different countries during the Covid-19 confinement (42). Also, ordinary school attendance has been largely substituted by both digital homework and digital classes in Spain, which could have added more screen time to the already existing before the confinement.…”

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Health-Related Behaviors Among School-Aged Children and Adolescents During the Spanish Covid-19 Confinement

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In response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) world pandemic, affected countries such as Spain enacted measures comprising compulsory confinement as well as restrictions regarding free movement. Such measures likely influence children's and adolescents' lifestyles. Our study aimed to investigate the impact that the Covid-19 confinement has on health-related behaviors (HRBs) among Spanish children and adolescents. An online survey was administered to 516 parents to collect data about 860 children and adolescents (49.2% girls) aged between 3 and 16 years in relation to physical activity, screen exposure, sleep time, and fruit and vegetable consumption during the Covid-19 confinement. Respectively, t-paired test and t-test between groups served to check differences between HRBs levels before and during the confinement as well as between strict and relaxed confinement. Significant differences were found for a reduction of weekly minutes of physical activity during the confinement (−102.5, SD 159.6) (p < 0.001), an increase of daily hours of screen exposure (2.9, SD 2.1) (p < 0.001), and a reduction of daily fruit and vegetable consumption (−0.2, SD 1.6) (p < 0.001). Sleep time showed a significant difference between strict and relaxed confinement (−0.3, SD 0.1) (p < 0.05), whereas binomial logistic regression adjusted for covariates (age, sex, education of the parents, siblings, current condition, exposure to Covid-19, and previous health risk behavior) showed significantly lower odds for screen exposure risk behavior with relaxed confinement (OR 0.60, 95%CI 0.40-0.91). The present study suggests that Covid-19 confinement reduced physical activity levels, increased both screen exposure and sleep time, and reduced fruit and vegetable consumption. Therefore, most HRBs worsened among this sample of Spanish children and adolescents. Closure of schools, online education, and the lack of López-Bueno et al. Health-Related Behaviors Among Young policies addressing the conciliation between labor and family life could have played an important role in HRBs worsening among pupils, which might be mitigated with adequate conciliation policies, parental guidance, and community support.

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“…The COVID-19 pandemic has raised a number of issues related to health, beyond the most urgent and life-threatening consequences. The risk of mental health consequences has been highlighted (Holmes et al, 2020), and this also includes a risk of increased online behavior, such as increased video gaming (King et al, 2020) or addictive internet use (Sun et al, 2020).…”

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“…Given the theoretically increased role of online behaviors (King et al, 2020;Sun et al, 2020), and the cancelation of sports activities, the present study focused on people reporting to be online gamblers. For the present study, data were derived from a population study on gambling behaviors, designed prior to the COVID-19 crisis as a web survey which was carried out during the month of May, 2020, i.e., during the ongoing crisis.…”

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Impact of COVID-19 on Online Gambling – A General Population Survey During the Pandemic

Håkansson

2020

Front. Psychol.

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The COVID-19 pandemic may have severe impact on mental health, and concerns have been raised about potentially increased online behavior and possibly increased gambling problems, such as in sports bettors at risk of transfer to even riskier forms of gambling during sports lock-down. Given the need for objective data about gambling behavior during the pandemic, the present analysis, from a project assessing online gambling in Sweden, aimed to study past-30-day gambling patterns in online gamblers in Sweden. The study, carried out in May, 2020, during the pandemic and its restrictions on society, included past-year online gamblers (N = 997). Past-30-day gambling for several gambling types was lower compared to a previous study in online gamblers in the same setting, while online non-sports gambling remained at high levels. Those reporting sports betting even during a period with decreased sports betting occasions proved to have markedly higher gambling problems. COVID-19 may alter gambling behaviors, and online gamblers who maintain or initiate gambling types theoretically reduced by the crisis may represent a group at particular risk.

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“…There are many online initiatives for patients with hemophilia. Exergames (active video games) are a good option for young people, provided they are used rationally [27,28].…”

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What COVID-19 can mean for people with hemophilia beyond the infection risk

Corte‐Rodríguez¹,

Álvarez‐Román²,

Rodríguez-Merchán³

et al. 2020

Expert Review of Hematology

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Introduction: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic represents an unprecedented global health crisis. To combat its effects, many governments have opted for strategies of social isolation that involve a radical change in people's behavior. Areas covered: For patients with hemophilia, the negative consequences of these measures can be greater, given they modify aspects of health care and lifestyles needed to counteract the adverse effects of hemophilia. The long-term consequences of the pandemic on patients with hemophilia are not well known. The aim of this special report is to show what COVID-19 could mean for this population, beyond the risk of infection. Expert opinion: Considerations of the clinical, care, therapeutic, physical, nutritional, mental health, pain, and disability aspects that might be affected are included. Strategies are also suggested to minimize the effects that these issues can have on patients' lives. Patients, health professionals, and society as a whole must work together to mitigate the effects of the pandemic on people with hemophilia.

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Problematic online gaming and the COVID-19 pandemic

Cited by 527 publications

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Health-Related Behaviors Among School-Aged Children and Adolescents During the Spanish Covid-19 Confinement

Health-Related Behaviors Among School-Aged Children and Adolescents During the Spanish Covid-19 Confinement

Impact of COVID-19 on Online Gambling – A General Population Survey During the Pandemic

What COVID-19 can mean for people with hemophilia beyond the infection risk

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