Discuss problems associated with excessive use of the Internet and electronic games

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Dr. Hamad Abdullah Al Ghafari, Director General of the National Rehabilitation Center, revealed that the po[CENSORED]rity of electronic games in the UAE indicates the possibility of becoming an addiction, pointing to the importance of the initiative and conducting the necessary studies on the subject, to prepare guidelines to control the time allowed for screens and electronic games.
He said during the sixth meeting of addictive behaviors and their effects on public health, which began Saturday in Abu Dhabi, hosted by the National Center for Rehabilitation Collaborating with the World Health Organization: We witnessed an important step by adding addiction to electronic games to the International Classification of Diseases of the World Health Organization, which contributed to the deepening of our understanding This phenomenon, both in the UAE and around the world.
`` The recognition of e-gaming addiction contributes to the development of programs and resources to help people with the disease.It provides us with an opportunity to track its prevalence and discuss and develop programs for treatment, rehabilitation and ways to control and prevent.We look forward to hearing the summary of the meeting and the suggestions that the meeting participants will make on this subject.
Online gaming is gaining po[CENSORED]rity in the UAE, and a study conducted by the Newswoo Center for Online Gaming Statistics in 2019 indicates that the UAE is among the top 100 online gaming markets permanently, based on revenue sources, and 80% of UAE smartphone users Themselves as practitioners of electronic games periodically.
The meeting will discuss the health symptoms associated with the excessive use of the Internet, media and electronic games, and the transformation of electronic gaming addiction to a global phenomenon that must be treated such as known patterns of addiction, according to the National Center for Rehabilitation, which makes great efforts in the areas of prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of all behaviors and diseases of addiction.
The 6th Meeting of Addictive Behaviors and their Effects on Public Health in Abu Dhabi, a group of academics and doctors discuss a number of important topics, where the topic of addiction to electronic games top of the meeting program, to discuss health symptoms and diagnosis and rehabilitation programs associated with the excessive use of electronic games, media and Internet games .
The World Health Organization (WHO) has included gaming addiction as part of its International Classification of Diseases (ICD), a reliable global reference for health symptoms.