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Studies have shown that longer hours of video game play are associated with general ill health, poor sleep quality and decreased performance at school and work. Youth who become pathological gamers ended up with increased levels of depression, anxiety and social phobia. More in this interview with Wafa Ibrahim, bilingual health educator with the Multicultural Centre for Womens Health in Melbourne where programs are trying to address this problem



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