Screen-based behaviour in school-aged children with long-term illness

HUSAROVÁ, Daniela, Andrea MADARASOVÁ-GECKOVÁ, Lukas BLINKA, Anna ŠEVČÍKOVÁ, Jitse P. VAN DIJK and Sijmen A. REIJNEVELD. Screen-based behaviour in school-aged children with long-term illness. BMC Public Health. BioMed Central, 2016, vol. 16, No 130, p. nestránkováno, 5 pp. ISSN 1471-2458. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-2804-8.

Basic information

• Original name: Screen-based behaviour in school-aged children with long-term illness
• Authors: HUSAROVÁ, Daniela (703 Slovakia), Andrea MADARASOVÁ-GECKOVÁ (703 Slovakia), Lukas BLINKA (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Anna ŠEVČÍKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jitse P. VAN DIJK (528 Netherlands) and Sijmen A. REIJNEVELD (528 Netherlands).
• Edition: BMC Public Health, BioMed Central, 2016, 1471-2458.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Field of Study: 50100 5.1 Psychology and cognitive sciences
• Country of publisher: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• Impact factor: Impact factor: 2.265
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14230/16:00087807
• Organization unit: Faculty of Social Studies
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-2804-8
• UT WoS: 000369808500001
• Keywords in English: Long-term illness; Asthma; Learning disabilities; Electronic media; Adolescents

Abstract

We used data from the cross-sectional Health Behaviour of School-aged Children study collected in 2014 among Slovak adolescents. We analysed the associations between screen-based behaviour and long-term illness, asthma and learning disabilities using logistic regression models adjusted for gender. We found no associations between screen-based behaviour and long-term illness, except that children with asthma had a 1.60-times higher odds of excessively playing computer games than healthy children (95% confidence interval of odds ratio (CI): 1.11–2.30). Children with learning disabilities had 1.71-times higher odds of risky use of the Internet (95% CI: 1.19–2.45). Adolescents with a long-term illness or with a chronic condition or a learning disability do not differ from their peers in screen-based activities. Exceptions are children with asthma and children with learning disabilities, who reported more risky screen-based behaviour.

Links

• GA15-19221S, research and development project: Name: Nové behaviorální závislosti: hry a sexualita online (Acronym: NOBEZ)

Investor: Czech Science Foundation