ACSID-11

The 11-item Assessment of Criteria for Specific Internet-use Disorders (ACSID-11) is a newly developed screening instrument based on the ICD-11 criteria for gaming disorder. It measures five (potential) specific Internet-use disorders (i.e., gaming disorder, online buying-shopping disorder, online pornography-use disorder, social-networks-use disorder, and online gambling disorder) with the same set of items by following the principles of WHO's Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST).

The original version in German was developed in the context of our Research Unit, FOR2974, and published in early 2022 (Müller et al., 2022). Since then, there have been various efforts for further validation studies (e.g. Oelker et al., 2024)and translations into other languages (see below).

Published translations:

Chinese (simplified; Northern China)
Chung‑Ying Lin
National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Reference (Open access):
Saffari, M., Chen, C. Y., Chen, I. H., Ruckwongpatr, K., Griffiths, M. D., Potenza, M. N., Wang, X. L., Huang, Y.-T., Chen, J.-S., Tsai, C.-C. & Lin, C. Y. (2024). A comprehensive measure assessing different types of problematic use of the internet among Chinese adolescents: The Assessment of Criteria for Specific Internet-use Disorders (ACSID-11). Comprehensive Psychiatry134, 152517. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2024.152517

English (for pornography- & Tinder-use)
Yasser Khazaal
Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Reference:
Liberacka-Dwojak, M., Cruz, G. V., Wiłkość-Dębczyńska, M., Rochat, L., Khan, R., Mueller, S. M., Brand, M., & Khazaal, Y. (2025). Validation of the English Assessment of Criteria for Specific Internet-use Disorders (ACSID-11) for Tinder and online pornography use. Frontiers in Psychiatry16, 1595502. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1595502

Indonesian
Chung‑Ying Lin
National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Reference:
Nadhiroh, S. R., Nurmala, I., Pramukti, I., Ruckwongpatr, K., Tyas, L. W., Zari, A. P., Islamiah, W. E., Siaw, Y. L., Potenza, M. N., & Lin, C.-Y. (2025). Specific Internet-use disorders among Indonesian college students: Psychometric evaluation of the Assessment of Criteria for Specific Internet-use Disorders (ACSID-11). International Journal of Mental Health Promotion27(12), 1847-1865. https://doi.org/10.32604/ijmhp.2025.072115

Italian
Silvia Casale
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology
Department of Health Sciences, University of Florence, Italy

Reference:
Ghinassi, S., Fioravanti, G., Donati, M. A., Primi, C., Loscalzo, Y., & Casale, S. (2026). Evaluating different patterns of problematic Internet use using a unified self-report measure based on the ICD-11 framework: Psychometric properties of the Italian version of the ACSID-11. Addictive Behaviors174, 108580. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2025.108580

Malay (Malaysia)
Chung‑Ying Lin
National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Reference:
Siaw, Y. L., Chua, K. H., Ruckwongpatr, K., Tung, S. E. H., Gan, W. Y., Poon, W. C., Nadhiroh, S. R., Nurmala, I., Üztemur, S., Chen, I-H., Griffiths , M. D., & Lin, C.-Y. (2025). Psychometric properties for the Malay version of the Assessment of Criteria for Specific Internet-use Disorders among young adults in Malaysia. Asian Journal of Social Health and Behavior8(3), 97-106. https://doi.org/10.4103/shb.shb_171_24

Thai (Thailand)
Chung‑Ying Lin
National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Reference (Open access):
Yang, Y. N., Su, J. A., Pimsen, A., Chen, J. S., Potenza, M. N., Pakpour, A. H., Chen, J.-K., Poon, W. C., Nurmala, I., Ruckwongpatr, K., & Lin, C.-Y. (2023). Validation of the Thai Assessment of Criteria for Specific Internet-use Disorders (ACSID-11) among young adults. BMC Psychiatry23(1), 819. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-05210-z

Traditional Chinese (Hongkong & Taiwan)
Chung‑Ying Lin
National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Reference:
Huang, Y. T., Ruckwongpatr, K., Chen, J. K., Pakpour, A. H., Siaw, Y. L., Nadhiroh, S. R., Kukreti, S., Chen, J.-S., Potenza, M. N., Griffiths, M. D., & Lin, C.-Y. (2024). Specific Internet disorders in university students in Taiwan and Hong Kong: Psychometric properties with invariance testing for the traditional Chinese version of the Assessment of Criteria for Specific Internet-use Disorders (ACSID-11). International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 1-34. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-024-01270-8    

Ongoing/planned translations

Arabic
Hussien Elkholy
Clinical Lecturer in Psychiatry, Brighton and Sussex Medical School (UK)
Professor of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University (Egypt)

Czech
Kateřina Lukavská
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education
Charles University (Univerzita Karlova), Prag, Tschechische Republik

Portuguese (Brazil)
Daniel Tornaim Spritzer
Graduate Program in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), (Brazil)

Spanish
Susana Jiménez-Murcia, PhD.
Head of Pathological Gambling Unit and co-Head of CIBERobn Group-ISCIII
Department of Psychiatry
University Hospital of Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain