[The relationship between emotional, physical abuse and Internet addiction disorder among middle school students].
OBJECTIVE
To study the relationship between emotional, physical abuse and internet addiction disorder (IAD) among middle school students, in order to lay foundation for the development of prevention and control programs on IAD.


METHODS
Students selected from 76 classes in Grade One and Grade Two, filled out the anonymous questionnaire, which including demographic characteristics of students, Young's Internet Addiction Scale, Parent-Child Conflict Tactics Scales, etc. Non-conditional multivariate logistic regression model was employed to explore the relationship between child abuse and IAD. Independent variable was child abuse while dependent variable was IAD. Covariant variables would include demographic characteristics, as sex, age, style of household, et al.


RESULTS
Among 3798 students, the overall prevalence of emotional abuse was 81.1%, with 55.1% of them reported having experienced physical abuse. Among 3507 internet users, 5.2% was diagnosed as IAD. Results from the non-conditional multivariate logistic regression model showed that odds ratio of severe physical abuse and moderate physical abuse were 3.02 (1.63-5.58) and 4.00 (2.01-7.93).


CONCLUSIONS
Moderate physical abuse and severe physical abuse were possible risk factors of IAD.
Zhang
Zhi-hua
ZH
Department of Epidemiology and Statistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230032, China.
Hao
Jia-hu
JH
Yang
Lin-sheng
LS
Zhang
Xiu-jun
XJ
Sun
Ye-huan
YH
Hu
Chuan-lai
CL
Ye
Dong-qing
DQ
Tao
Fang-biao
FB
D000293:Adolescent; D016739:Behavior, Addictive / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D016015:Logistic Models; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires