AVALIAÇÃO CLÍNICA DE PACIENTES COM GAMING DISORDER

Abstract

Video games emerged in the 70s and have been growing in popularity in recent years all over the world, with a great social, cultural and health impact, when an individual does not build a good relationship with these instruments. With that in mind, DSM-5 and ICD-11 defined the pathology called gaming disorder (GD) with its specific signs and symptoms. This work aims to review the literature on the clinical evaluation of patients with GD, clarifying what has been discussed and published on the subject in the last 5 years. The topic was researched on the PubMed platform using the descriptors: gaming disorder and clinical evaluation. Afterwards, only studies in humans that were launched in the last 5 years, with full text available free of charge in Portuguese and English, were selected. Eighteen articles were used to carry out this work. It was concluded that GD is a behavioral disorder that affects more young men, with a higher incidence of cases in the Asian continent. Several scales were created with the purpose of diagnosis and screening, which demonstrates that there is a need to identify this disorder in the population. The symptoms refer to the individual's problematic behavior with games and how this behavior affects the patient's relationships and activities. This disorder is correlated with other psychiatric pathologies that involve behavioral and mood symptoms, such as ADHD, depression and anxiety. Finally, the social and political impact of gaming disorder is noticed when observing the public policies implemented by some countries in order to contain the advance of this pathology.