Pathological Internet Use—An Important Comorbidity in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Prevalence and Correlation Patterns in a Naturalistic Sample of Adolescent Inpatients

Table 2

Problematic and pathological internet use: comparison of the clinical sample with a sample of nonreferred youth (school sample).

	Clinical sample ()		School sample ()		Cohen’s	value	value
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
CIUS	14.78	13.75	11.15	8.0	0.32	6.43	<0.001
	%		%		Odds Ratio	95% CI
Problematic internet use	28.8%		11.0%		3.9	2.3–6.3	<0.001
Pathological internet use	20.7%		3.4%		7.0	3.7–13.3	<0.001