Nowadays, people depend on Internet on sociality, working and entertainment heavily which even cause the phenomenon of Internet addiction. Health Bureau of Taichung City proposes 7 steps for using Internet healthily and provides Network Usage Habits Self-Screening Scale for people, and call for people should accept treatment as soon as possible if they have Internet addiction.
Among the 8110 Taiwanese teenagers, the prevalence of online game addiction was about 3.1% which is slightly higher than that of Western countries, according to the investigation of Ministry of Health and Welfare.
52% of people with online game addiction stated that they had experiences of spending money in gaming and spent 41 hours a week on online games, which is nearly twice time of people with non-Internet gamer. In the era of rapid development of the technology, human-computer interaction is close, and Internet addiction will be a problem that the public needs to know and face.
In respond to this situation, Health Bureau provided 7 steps for using Internet healthily, including to set up limited using time, insist on the principles of using Internet, taking rest after using 30 minutes, accompanied with children when they use Internet, select suitable website for children, going out for outdoors activities and interacted with children more, hoping the parents and public to assist the children to have the correct perspective of using Internet.
If you have noticed that your family members or friends are different in daily life or have changed attitude dramatically, you can download the Network Usage Habits Self-Screening Scale from the Health Bureau website to check whether they have tendency to Internet addiction. People can also go to 36 therapeutic hospitals for Internet addictions in Taichung to seek professional advice.
