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Table 2 Mean prevalence of Internet addiction among college students in different subgroups

From: Internet addiction detection rate among college students in the People’s Republic of China: a meta-analysis

 

Gender

District distribution

Scale

Male

Female

South

North

East

Mid-west

Young

CIAS

Study number

23

23

14

12

11

15

20

5

Prevalence (%)

16

8

11

11

13

9

11

9

95% CI (%)

13–19

5–10

8–14

7–14

8–18

8–11

8–15

6–11

Heterogeneity (I2)

0.961

0.979

0.984

0.981

0.991

0.939

0.987

0.902

  1. North and South are divided by Qinling Mountains–Huaihe River Line. East and mid-west are divided by economic development level. One paper which uses CDC standard do not sort by scale
  2. CI confidence interval, CIAS Chen Internet Addiction Scale, Young Young Internet Addiction Scale
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