Daniel Tornaim Spritzer

Datos Biográficos

ID3483138
NOMBREDaniel Tornaim Spritzer
NOMBRESDaniel Tornaim
APELLIDOSpritzer
FIRMASPRITZER D T
AFILIACIONESUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
ORCID0000-0002-7408-6252
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS10
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR10
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2017
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H0

  • Banning loot boxes for minors

    Open AccessDaniel Tornaim Spritzer, Ivelise Fortim et al.ARTICLEJournal of Behavioral Addictions2026

    Brazil's Digital Child and Adolescent Act (2025) prohibits paid loot boxes in games accessible to minors under a public health and child-rights framework, regardless of whether they should be classified as gambling. The law focuses on psychological mechanisms underlying harm, including variable-ratio reinforcement and reward uncertainty, to which adolescents are developmentally vulnerable. It establishes administrative sanctions, including fines …

  • Early childhood screen use and symptoms of problematic media use

    Open AccessCamille Fitzpatrick, Marie-Andrée Binet et al.ARTICLEJournal of Behavioral Addictions2025

  • Experience report

    Open AccessJoana Corrêa De Magalhães Narvaez, Sheila Gonçalves Câmara et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Social…2025

    Introduction: This Experience Report explores the mobilisation of mental health professionals and students who responded to the catastrophic floods in Rio Grande do Sul (RS), Brazil, in 2024. Triggered by prolonged rainfall and exacerbated by urbanisation and the influence of El Niño, this event caused unprecedented devastation, with over 615,000 individuals displaced and severe socioeconomic impacts. This paper aims to describe the experiences o…

  • The Self-perception of Text message Dependence Scale (STDS)

    Open AccessDaniel Tornaim Spritzer, André Luiz Monezi Andrade et al.ARTICLECurrent Psychology2023

  • Mental health help-seeking among Brazilian medical students

    Open AccessTamires Martins Bastos, Daniela Benzano Bumaguin et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Social…2022

    INTRODUCTION: Several barriers for mental health help-seeking were identified among medical students, including minimizing mental illness. Studies examining aspects particular to those who perceive psychological impairment but do not access treatment are necessary for planning interventions. AIMS: To identify help-seeking barriers based on the students' perception about their need for treatment and psychiatric symptoms. Methods: Cross-sectional s…

  • The Prevalence and Predictors of Problematic Mobile Phone Use

    Open AccessArgyroula Kalaitzaki, Stéphanie Laconi et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Mental…2022

  • Expert appraisal of criteria for assessing gaming disorder

    Open AccessJesús Castro‐calvo, Daniel L King et al.ARTICLEAddiction2021

  • Psychometric Properties of the Nine-Item Problematic Internet Use Questionnaire in a Brazilian General Population Sample

    Open AccessDaniel Tornaim Spritzer, Wagner De Lara Machado et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2021

    Objective: The goal of the study is to adapt and examine the psychometric properties of the Brazilian version of the nine-item Problematic Internet Use Questionnaire (PIUQ-SF-9). Methods: A convenience sample of Brazilian internet users aged between 18 and 89 years (72.7% female, mean age 38.7 years ± 13.5) was recruited online from September 2018 to July 2019 (test sample = 1,525; retest sample = 237). Participants responded to the adapted versi…

  • Including gaming disorder in the ICD-11: The need to do so from a clinical and public health perspective

    Open AccessHans‐jürgen Rumpf, Sophia Achab et al.ARTICLEJournal of Behavioral Addictions2018

    The proposed introduction of gaming disorder (GD) in the 11th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) has led to a lively debate over the past year. Besides the broad support for the decision in the academic press, a recent publication by van Rooij et al. (2018) repeated the criticism raised against the inclusion of GD in ICD-11 by Aarseth et al. (2017). We argue that this…

  • Gaming disorder

    Open AccessJennifer B Saunders, John B Saunders et al.ARTICLEJournal of Behavioral Addictions2017

    Online gaming has greatly increased in popularity in recent years, and with this has come a multiplicity of problems due to excessive involvement in gaming. Gaming disorder, both online and offline, has been defined for the first time in the draft of 11th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). National surveys have shown prevalence rates of gaming disorder/addiction of 10%-15% among young people in several Asian countr…