title: Use of Internet in an Italian clinical sample.
abstract: This study is aimed at evaluating Internet use in a psychiatric population. We used the UADI questionnaire to investigate the degree of addictive Internet use in our sample of patients affected by various psychiatric disorders. Several psychological and psychopathological variables related to internet use, have been assessed through the five dimensions of the UADI: dissociation (DIS), Impact on real life (IMP), Experimentation (EXP), Dependence (DEP), Escape (ESC).
authors.affiliation: Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neuroscience, University of Palermo, Italy.
authors.forename: Caterina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: La Cascia
authors.forename: Filippo
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: La Paglia
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Francomano
authors.forename: Daniele
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: La Barbera
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D016739:Behavior, Addictive / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007558:Italy / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires