| Autor: |
Borges G; Center for Global Mental Health, National Institute of Psychiatry Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz, Mexico City 14370, Mexico., Benjet C; Center for Global Mental Health, National Institute of Psychiatry Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz, Mexico City 14370, Mexico., Orozco R; Center for Global Mental Health, National Institute of Psychiatry Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz, Mexico City 14370, Mexico., Albor Y; Center for Global Mental Health, National Institute of Psychiatry Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz, Mexico City 14370, Mexico., Contreras EV; Facultad de Ciencias Administrativas y Sociales, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada 22860, Mexico., Monroy-Velasco IR; Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila, Saltillo 25125, Mexico., Hernández-Uribe PC; Secretaría de la Unidad Cuajimalpa, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City 14387, Mexico., Báez-Mansur PM; Universidad La Salle Victoria, Ciudad Victoria, Mexico., Covarrubias Diaz Couder MA; Coordinación de Investigación, Universidad la Salle Noroeste, Ciudad Obregón 85019, Mexico., Quevedo-Chávez GE; Coordinación de Psicología, Universidad la Salle Cancún, Cancún 77560, Mexico., Gutierrez-García RA; Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad De La Salle Bajío, Salamanca 36700, Mexico., Machado N; Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora, Ciudad Obregón 85059, Mexico. |
| Abstrakt: |
We seek to evaluate whether Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) among university students in Mexico during their first year at university predicts a long list of mental disorders a year later, controlling for baseline mental health disorders as well as demographics. This is a prospective cohort study with a one-year follow-up period conducted during the 2018-2019 academic year and followed up during the 2019-2020 academic year at six Mexican universities. Participants were first-year university students (n = 1741) who reported symptoms compatible with an IGD diagnosis at entry (baseline). Outcomes are seven mental disorders (mania, hypomania, and major depressive episodes; generalized anxiety disorder and panic disorder; alcohol use disorder and drug use disorder), and three groups of mental disorders (mood, anxiety, and substance use disorders) at the end of the one-year follow-up. Fully adjusted models, that included baseline controls for groups of mental disorders, rendered all associations null. The association between baseline IGD and all disorders and groups of disorders at follow-up was close to one, suggesting a lack of longitudinal impact of IGD on mental disorders. Conflicting results from available longitudinal studies on the role of IGD in the development of mental disorders warrant further research. |
