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Published on 10.05.18 in Vol 5, No 2 (2018): Apr-Jun

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Lucia Lin Liu, Tim MH Li, Alan R Teo, Takahiro A Kato, Paul WC Wong

JMIR Ment Health 2018 (May 10); 5(2):e34 

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  1. Tan MPJ, Lee W, Kato TA. International experience of hikikomori (prolonged social withdrawal) and its relevance to psychiatric research. BJPsych International 2021;18(2):34
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  16. Pereira-Sanchez V, Alvarez-Mon MA, Horinouchi T, Kawagishi R, Tan MPJ, Hooker ER, Alvarez-Mon M, Teo AR. Examining Tweet Content and Engagement of Users With Tweets About Hikikomori in Japanese: Mixed Methods Study of Social Withdrawal. Journal of Medical Internet Research 2022;24(1):e31175
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  21. Kato TA, Kanba S, Teo AR. Hikikomori : Multidimensional understanding, assessment, and future international perspectives. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 2019;73(8):427
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  22. Al-Sibani N, Chan MF, Al-Huseini S, Al Kharusi N, Guillemin GJ, Al-Abri M, Ganesh A, Al Hasani Y, Al-Adawi S, Arnout BIA. Exploring Hikikomori-like idiom of distress a year into the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Oman: Factorial validity of the 25-item Hikikomori Questionnaire, prevalence and associated factors. PLOS ONE 2023;18(8):e0279612
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  23. Hai R, Wong PW. Emerging trends in Hikikomori behaviour among young people in China: Implications for research and policy. Asian Journal of Psychiatry 2024;93:103925
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  25. Kato TA, Sartorius N, Shinfuku N. Shifting the paradigm of social withdrawal: a new era of coexisting pathological and non-pathological hikikomori. Current Opinion in Psychiatry 2024;37(3):177
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  27. Amendola S, Cerutti R. Examining the relationship between social withdrawal motivations and symptoms of hikikomori. Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health 2024;:1
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