Effect of Computer Games on the Student's Health
The article considers the incidence of computer games addiction among the students. The sample group consisted of students studying information technologies at a technical university in Minsk from the 1 st to the 4 th year amounting to 151 persons. It has been established, that according to the ICD-10 criteria, 33.8% of the total number of respondents are subject to computer games addiction, while moreover 30.5% of the detected had the symptoms of computer games addiction formation. Neurotic disorders in the form of phobic anxiety disorders, anxiodepressive, somatic and vegetative syndromes have been revealed in 19.2% students, physical fatigue in 47%, and exhaustion in 30.5%. It has been revealed that the formation of the autonomous virtual image (AVI) of the hallucinoid type takes place in 14.6% of students. The anonymous screening assay was carried out in a wide popularity of computer games in the student's environment, which often leads to the development of computer games addiction.