The general health status of people with pornography addiction: Comparison with the normal group

Pornography is one of the addictive and high-risk sexual behaviors that can play a role in different dimensions of people's mental health. People involved in pornography addiction suffer from mental, emotional, cognitive problems which have a negative effect on their life.

The aim of this study was to investigating the General health status of people with pornography addiction: comparison with the normal group.

This research is a causal-comparative study. The statistical population of the present study includes all men aged 18 to 35 with pornography addiction and normal in Urmia city in the spring and summer of 2023.
The statistical population of the present study includes all men aged 18 to 35 in Urmia city in the spring and summer of 2023. To determine the sample size, by referring to the GPower sample size software, 36 people with pornography addiction and 36 people who did not have pornography addiction were selected using the available sampling method and completed the pornography addiction questionnaire of Kerr et al (2014) and Goldberg's & Hiller general health questionnaire (1972). The data was analyzed by multivariate analysis of variance and by SPSS 19 software.

The results showed that there was a significant difference between the two groups in anxiety and insomnia (P< 0.05) and depression (P< 0.01), but there was no significant difference between groups in somatic symptoms and and social dysfunction (P< 0.05).

According to the obtained results, it can be said that pornography addiction can lead to more depression, anxiety and and insomnia; Therefore, it is suggested to use preventive and therapeutic interventions to reduce the tendency to pornography in groups exposed to this addiction