Gaming disorder
The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified 'gaming disorder' as a mental health condition .
What is gaming disorder?
Gaming disorder is characterised by a person engaging in 'digital gaming' or 'video gaming' for an excessive amount of time, unable to find time for daily activities due to gaming, prioritising gaming over other interests and social interactions, depressive, Gaming was defined as having a negative impact on personal relationships.In order to identify a gaming disorder in a person who plays excessively, harmful changes in personal, family, social, educational and occupational behavior patterns must be of a sufficiently severe nature and such severe changes must be clearly observed for at least 12 months. should be done.Why the need for inclusion in ICD-11?
Mental health experts and psychiatrists agree that Internet and digital video gaming addiction, although still a small part of the world's.
population but it is rapidly emerging as a psychiatric disease and is likely to emerge as a mental health problem in the coming years.
The decision to include gaming disorder in the ICD-11 is based on reviews of the evidence provided by studies.The inclusion of gaming disorder in ICD-11 will allow countries and organization to develop plans and programs for its treatment.various
One of the benefits of this would be that psychiatrists would beable to recognised early signs of the development of gaming disorder in a person while treating him/her and take relevant prevention and treatment accordingly.International Classification of Diseases - ICD
The 'International Classification of Diseases' or 'International Classification of Diseases' is an international standard diagnostic manual for epidemiological and health management and clinical purposes, published by the WHO. Its full official name is 'International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems
The ICD is designed as a health care classification system to identify common symptoms, health complaints, abnormal findings of disease, the patient's social circumstances and the externalities of injury or illness. A diagnostic code can be arranged by narrowing down the causes .classification
It categorised the general types of diseases and their specific types
and determines the codes for them. This code is can be upto characters long. It also promotes international comparison in data collection, processing, classification and presentation of various diseases.
