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their time at home for studying, notwithstanding the fact that most of their time was devoted to using the Internet and/or gaming. It may imply that studying at home, including time spent on online educational activities, worked better than studying at school for some of these treatment seekers. This study suggests that social restrictions, including stay-home measure due to the COVID-19 pandemic, have negatively affected Internet use and gaming behavior among treatment seekers. However, this situation may also have provided an environment in which socially isolated treatment seekers were able to study more at home. This study was retrospective in design and focused only on treatment seekers. In addition, the small number of questions in the questionnaire and limited number of study participants did not allow for detailed data analysis (e.g., severity of GD/EUIG and the comorbidity of the participants). Further studies on other subject groups, including the general population and students, using a prospective design are warranted.