TY - JOUR AU - Khalil, Salman AU - Sultana, Farheen AU - Muzammil, Khursheed AU - Alim, Farzana AU - Nasir, Nazim AU - Hassan, Atiq ul AU - Mahmood, Syed Esam PY - 2019/09/30 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Impact of Playing Violent Video Games Among School Going Children JF - Indian Journal of Community Health JA - Indian J Community Health VL - 31 IS - 3 SE - Original Article DO - 10.47203/IJCH.2019.v31i03.007 UR - http://www.iapsmupuk.org/journal/index.php/IJCH/article/view/1217 SP - 331 - 337 AB - <p><strong>Introduction</strong>: Children who play violent video games can become violent and aggressive. An aggressive emotional change in their behavior and deviation in academic performance is usually noticed. <strong>Aim: </strong>To assess the impact of violent video games playing among school going adolescents. <strong>Materials and Methods: </strong>A cross-sectional study was conducted among a random sample of 400 adolescents recruited from four selected English medium schools of a City of Northern India by convenient sampling. Each student was interviewed by using a self-structured questionnaire which covered demographics,&nbsp;video&nbsp;gaming behaviors, and effects of&nbsp;video&nbsp;game playing on adolescents. <strong>Statistical Analysis: </strong>Collected data were entered in Microsoft Excel and subjected to suitable statistical tests. <strong>Results: </strong>83.75% of the participants play video games while 1/3<sup>rd</sup> preferred to play violent games. 72.24% of the parents did not monitor the video game content of their children. Both boys (58.56%) and girls (17.12%) got aggressive during parent’s interference while playing violent video games. Most of the male (62.07%) were willing to apply actions of violent video games in real life. About 63.21% male violent video gamers showed poor academic performance as compared to girls (33.33%). <strong>Conclusion: </strong>Adolescents and their parents should be updated about the negative impact of excessive video game playing on health and psychosocial functioning.</p> ER -