Associations among screen time, sleep, mental health and cognitive functioning in school-aged children during the COVID-19 pandemic, November 2020 through to August 2022.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine children's screen time use and sleep patterns over 2 years of the pandemic and the downstream associations with children's executive functions and behavioural problems, as well as the moderating effects of parental factors.

Method

This longitudinal cohort study examined school-aged children's lifestyle and behavioural changes over 2 years of the pandemic across 6 timepoints (November 2020 to August 2022). Latent growth modeling (LGM) was used to identify changes in screen time and sleep duration and multivariate LGM was used to determine how parental stress, positive parenting, changes in children's screen time and sleep over time were associated with children's executive functions and mental health outcomes at the final time point.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Choi EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11407957 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature