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Published on: August 1, 2019
Use of Internet in an Italian clinical sample
Caterina La Cascia1, Filippo La Paglia, Antonio Francomano
1Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neuroscience, University of Palermo, Italy.
Abstract:
This study is aimed at evaluating Internet use in a psychiatric population. We used the UADI questionnaire to investigate the degree of addictive Internet use in our sample of patients affected by various psychiatric disorders. Several psychological and psychopathological variables related to internet use, have been assessed through the five dimensions of the UADI: dissociation (DIS), Impact on real life (IMP), Experimentation (EXP), Dependence (DEP), Escape (ESC).
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