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Jiang Long1,2, Roshan Bhad2,3, Marc N Potenza4
1Psychiatrist/Researcher, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Abstract:
The World Health Organization (WHO) has added gaming disorder to ICD-11 as a clinical condition associated with distress or interference with personal functioning. This inclusion leads to clinical and public health benefits, such as harmonising terminology, offering clinical landmarks and improving monitoring capabilities and data comparability. Training health professionals to identify and manage gaming disorder is a key challenge for countries. In the present paper we compiled opinions from different countries around the globe on their state of preparedness and needs to tackle this issue. The global views on the topic feed arguments for developing an evidence-based and cross-cultural training tool for gaming disorder management by health professionals.
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