Total recall in the SCAMP cohort: Validation of self-reported mobile phone use in the smartphone era.

ABSTRACT: Mobile phone use, predominantly smartphones, is almost ubiquitous amongst both adults and children. However adults and children have different usage patterns. A major challenge with research on mobile phone use is the reliability of self-reported phone activity for accurate exposure assessment. We investigated the agreement between self-reported mobile phone use data and objective mobile operator traffic data in a subset of adolescents aged 11-12 years participating in the Study of Cognition, Adolescents and Mobile Phones (SCAMP) cohort. We examined self-reported mobile phone use, including call frequency, cumulative call time duration and text messages sent among adolescents from SCAMP and matched these data with records provided by mobile network operators (n = 350). The extent of agreem

SUBMITTER: Mireku MO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5773244 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature