Passive Sensing of Preteens' Smartphone Use: An Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Cohort Substudy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Concerns abound regarding childhood smartphone use, but studies to date have largely relied on self-reported screen use. Self-reporting of screen use is known to be misreported by pediatric samples and their parents, limiting the accurate determination of the impact of screen use on social, emotional, and cognitive development. Thus, a more passive, objective measurement of smartphone screen use among children is needed.

Objective

This study aims to passively sense smartphone screen use by time and types of apps used in a pilot sample of children and to assess the feasibility of passive sensing in a larger longitudinal sample.

Methods

The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study used passive, objective phone app methods for assessing smartphone s

SUBMITTER: Wade NE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8561413 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature