Internet addiction and psychological distress among house officers in a Malaysian hospital: a cross-sectional study.

Background: House officers are susceptible to internet addiction and psychological distress. This study aimed to investigate factors associated with internet addiction among house officers in a Malaysian hospital.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional study of house officers at Hospital Selayang in Selangor, Malaysia.

Social anhedonia in Malaysian schizophrenia patients and healthy participants.

The reduced capacity for social and interpersonal interactions, social anhedonia, is an important aspect of various psychiatric disorders, especially schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. The goal of the present study was to validate a Malay translation of the adult version of the Anticipatory and Consummatory Interpersonal Pleasure Scale (ACIPS; Gooding and Pflum, 2014), a relatively short and easy to administer indirect measure of social anhedonia. This cross-sectional study included 95 (47 male, 48 female) schizophrenia patients and 300 (77 male, 223 female) healthy subjects.