Prevalence of internet gaming disorder among engineering student of engineering institute of Belagavi City, Karnataka, India

Abstract

Background: Today internet is reaching every corner of the world. This has created increase in games who play games online. Cases of suicide attempts, suicide death, self-harm allegedly have been reported from all parts of India. To estimate the prevalence of internet gaming disorder (IGD) among engineering students of engineering institute of Belagavi city.Methods: 262 engineering students of studying in Engineering Institute of Belagavi city were enrolled. Information on socio-demographic was collected by using questionnaire IGD-20 and DSM-5 IGD-9 standard tools were used to estimate IGD prevalence. Data were analysed using statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS) software.Results: Out of 262 participants, 77.9% were male and 22.1% were female. Prevalence of internet gaming disorder was 9.1% among engineering students.Conclusions: Prevalence of internet gaming disorder was high majority were male. Prevalence of IGD was higher among youths and those students spent 3-4-hour daily in gaming.