| Literature DB >> 19486737 |
Chih-Hung Ko1, Ju-Yu Yen, Sue-Huei Chen, Ming-Jen Yang, Huang-Chi Lin, Cheng-Fang Yen.
Abstract
The aims of this study were to develop diagnostic criteria of Internet addiction for college students (DC-IA-C) with diagnostic interviews and to establish the optimal cutoff points of the Chen Internet Addiction Scale (CIAS) for the purposes of screening for and making the diagnosis of Internet addiction. A total of 216 college students (132 male and 84 female) were recruited in the study. The results demonstrated that 5/6 cutoff points of criteria A in DC-IA-C had the best diagnostic accuracy (95.9%). Besides, 63/64 and 67/68 cutoff points of the CIAS were evaluated to be the best screening and diagnostic cutoff points, respectively. The DC-IA-C can provide health care professionals with a means to diagnose and communicate about Internet addiction among college students, and the screening and diagnostic cutoff points of CIAS could provide a screening instrument or a discriminative instrument in surveys for Internet addiction among college students.Mesh：
Year: 2009 PMID： 19486737 DOI： 10.1016/j.comppsych.2007.05.019
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Compr Psychiatry ISSN： 0010-440X Impact factor: 3.735