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KMID : 0358120030290010010
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Journal of the Korean Public Health Association
2003 Volume.29 No. 1 p.10 ~ p.16
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Internet Addiction and VDT Syndrome in The Middle and High School Male Students Using PC bangs in a small sized city
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Park Sung-Eun
Lee Dong-Wook
Lee In-Goo
Bae Jae-Ik
Sung Nak-Jin
Park Ki-Heum
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Abstract
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Background: It is one of the important daily activities for Korean students to use the Internet, and most of them go to PC bang. However, students´ uncontrolled Internet use causes compulsive Internet use, so called "the Internet addiction." So we investigated the relationship between students´ internet use pattern and their Internet addiction. And also examined how internet addiction causes VDT syndrome.
Method: We conducted survey with self-registered questionnaires for 1 months, from January to February 2000. On the questionnaire, we asked Internet use pattern to students in suburban area. To test the Internet addiction, this research adopted Dr. Young´s Internet addiction self test, and also major 8 symptoms of VDT syndrome were tested.
Results: There was not much difference in computer using time between at home and at PC bang, and among student´s grade. We found 30.1% of the objects addicted to the internet, however, there was no relationship between Internet addiction and student´s grade. We found statistically significant relationship between Internet addiction and VDT syndrome (p<0.05) except ocular symptoms and city mouth.
Conclusion: As a result, we found that Internet addiction is related with the spending time on computer use, although there is no relationship between Internet addiction and student´s grade. There are significant correlations between internet addiction and VDT syndrome. So internet addiction is not only social and psychiatric problem but a physiologic disorder which affect student´s health.
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KEYWORD
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internet addiction, VDT syndrome, student, PC bang
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