Open AccessAssociation Between Screen Time and Children’s Performance on a Developmental Screening Test
Author(s) -
Sheri Madigan,
Dillon T. Browne,
Nicole Racine,
Camille Mori,
Suzanne Tough
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
jama pediatrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.004
H-Index - 183
eISSN - 2168-6211
pISSN - 2168-6203
DOI - 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2018.5056
Subject(s) - medicine , screen time , association (psychology) , demography , child development , pediatrics , longitudinal study , test (biology) , cohort , population , millennium cohort study (united states) , cohort study , environmental health , physical therapy , psychiatry , paleontology , philosophy , sociology , pathology , physical activity , epistemology , biology
Excessive screen time is associated with delays in development; however, it is unclear if greater screen time predicts lower performance scores on developmental screening tests or if children with poor developmental performance receive added screen time as a way to modulate challenging behavior.
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