TV, computer, tablet and smartphone use and autism spectrum disorder risk in early childhood: a nationally-representative study.
BMC Public Health
; 22(1): 865, 2022 04 30.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1951134
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Screen media use in early childhood has largely increased in recent years, even more so during the COVID-19 epidemic, and there is much discussion regarding its influence on neurodevelopment, including Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).METHODS:
We examined the relationship between use of TV, computer, tablet and smartphone at age 2 years and risk of ASD assessed in telephone-based questionnaires among 12,950 children participating in the nationally representative ELFE ('Etude Longitudinale Française sur les Enfants') birth cohort study in France.RESULTS:
In inverse-probability weighted (IPW) multinomial regression analyses, children's weekly or daily screen media use was associated with an increased likelihood of an intermediate risk of ASD (IPW-controlled OR for weekly use1.07, 95% CI 1.02-1.12; IPW-controlled OR for daily use1.05, 95% CI 1.02-1.08) but inversely associated with a high risk (IPW-controlled OR for weekly use 0.60, 95% CI 0.50-0.73; IPW-controlled OR for daily use 0.75, 95% CI 0.62-0.91), as ascertained by the M-CHAT. This was confirmed when studying TV as well as computer/tablet exposure separately.CONCLUSIONS:
Overall, our nationally-representative study conducted among a large sample of 2-year-old children, indicates a complex relationship between screen exposure and ASD risk.Keywords
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Autism Spectrum Disorder
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Cohort study
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Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Child, preschool
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Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
BMC Public Health
Journal subject:
Public Health
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
S12889-022-13296-5
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