Brief overview of the WHO Collaborative Project on the Development of New International Screening and Diagnostic Instruments for Gaming Disorder and Gambling Disorder

Natacha Carragher, Joël Billieux, Henrietta Bowden-Jones, Sophia Achab, Marc N. Potenza, Hans Jürgen Rumpf, Jiang Long, Zsolt Demetrovics, Douglas Gentile, David Hodgins, Osman Tolga Aricak, Michael Baigent, Claudia Gandin, Afarin Rahimi-Movaghar, Emanuele Scafato, Sawitri Assanangkornchai, Kristiana Siste, Wei Hao, Daniel L. King, John SaundersSusumu Higuchi, Vladimir Poznyak

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Abstract

Inthis brief letter, we report a new WHO-led project developing gold standard instruments to detect gamingdisorderand gambling disorder following their inclusion in the ‘disordersdue to addictive behaviours’section of theeleventh revision of theInternational Classification of Diseases (ICD-11)
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2119-2121
Number of pages3
JournalAddiction
Volume117
Issue number7
Early online date9 Dec 2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2022

Keywords

  • Addictive behaviours
  • assessment
  • diagnosis
  • gambling
  • gaming
  • screening
  • video games
  • WHO

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