WHO says it is “challenging if not impossible” to document gaming disorder
nme.comThis comes as professor Andrew Przybylski – a social science researcher at Oxford University with a focus on video games – reached out to WHO in an attempt to understand how it came to classify gaming disorder, and the specific research the organisation conducted.Przybylski shared WHO’s email response with NME, which reads: “It is challenging if not impossible, to document and communicate the rationale and justification for [the gaming disorder] decision.”WHO links to a minimal amount of research – found here – and Przybylski is concerned that this isn’t nearly enough publicly available data to justify the decision blanketing gaming disorder as an addictive behaviour, as it appears to completely ignore his and others work that disputes the.
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