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Family resilience and neighborhood factors affect the association between digital media use and mental health among children: does sleep mediate the association?

The associations between digital media use and mental well-being among children and adolescents have been inconclusive. We examined (i) the associations between digital media use and mental health outcomes, anxiety, depression, and ADHD, (ii) whether family resilience and neighborhood factors attenu...

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Autores principales: Uddin, Helal, Hasan, Md. Khalid
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10257603/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36922452
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00431-023-04898-1
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description The associations between digital media use and mental well-being among children and adolescents have been inconclusive. We examined (i) the associations between digital media use and mental health outcomes, anxiety, depression, and ADHD, (ii) whether family resilience and neighborhood factors attenuate the associations, and (iii) whether sleep mediates these associations. We used the National Survey of Children’s Health data from 2019 to 2020. A total of 45,989 children’s (6–17 years) data were analyzed in this study. Multivariate logistic regression was used to assess the associations between digital media use and anxiety, depression, and ADHD. Path models and Paramed command in STATA were used to test the role of sleep as a mediator of these associations. The prevalence of heavy digital media users (who spent 4 or more hours per day) among the analytic sample was 30.52%, whereas anxiety was 13.81%, depression was 5.93%, and ADHD was 12.41%. Children in the heavy media user group had 63% increased odds of anxiety (95% CI: 1.32–2.01) and 99% increased odds of depression (95% CI: 1.35–2.94) after adjusting for sociodemographic factors, compared to the children in light media user group (who spent < 2 h per day), and these relations were significant at 0.01 level. However, family resilience and community factors significantly attenuated the effect of digital media use on anxiety and depression. Sleep did not mediate the associations between digital media use and anxiety or depression.   Conclusions: Family resilience and neighborhood factors protect against the harmful effects of digital media use. Further research is needed to examine the relationships of media contents, the presence of electronic devices in bedrooms, and sleep quality with mental health.
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spelling pubmed-102576032023-06-12 Family resilience and neighborhood factors affect the association between digital media use and mental health among children: does sleep mediate the association? Uddin, Helal Hasan, Md. Khalid Eur J Pediatr Research The associations between digital media use and mental well-being among children and adolescents have been inconclusive. We examined (i) the associations between digital media use and mental health outcomes, anxiety, depression, and ADHD, (ii) whether family resilience and neighborhood factors attenuate the associations, and (iii) whether sleep mediates these associations. We used the National Survey of Children’s Health data from 2019 to 2020. A total of 45,989 children’s (6–17 years) data were analyzed in this study. Multivariate logistic regression was used to assess the associations between digital media use and anxiety, depression, and ADHD. Path models and Paramed command in STATA were used to test the role of sleep as a mediator of these associations. The prevalence of heavy digital media users (who spent 4 or more hours per day) among the analytic sample was 30.52%, whereas anxiety was 13.81%, depression was 5.93%, and ADHD was 12.41%. Children in the heavy media user group had 63% increased odds of anxiety (95% CI: 1.32–2.01) and 99% increased odds of depression (95% CI: 1.35–2.94) after adjusting for sociodemographic factors, compared to the children in light media user group (who spent < 2 h per day), and these relations were significant at 0.01 level. However, family resilience and community factors significantly attenuated the effect of digital media use on anxiety and depression. Sleep did not mediate the associations between digital media use and anxiety or depression.   Conclusions: Family resilience and neighborhood factors protect against the harmful effects of digital media use. Further research is needed to examine the relationships of media contents, the presence of electronic devices in bedrooms, and sleep quality with mental health. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2023-03-16 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC10257603/ /pubmed/36922452 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00431-023-04898-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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title Family resilience and neighborhood factors affect the association between digital media use and mental health among children: does sleep mediate the association?
title_full Family resilience and neighborhood factors affect the association between digital media use and mental health among children: does sleep mediate the association?
title_fullStr Family resilience and neighborhood factors affect the association between digital media use and mental health among children: does sleep mediate the association?
title_full_unstemmed Family resilience and neighborhood factors affect the association between digital media use and mental health among children: does sleep mediate the association?
title_short Family resilience and neighborhood factors affect the association between digital media use and mental health among children: does sleep mediate the association?
title_sort family resilience and neighborhood factors affect the association between digital media use and mental health among children: does sleep mediate the association?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10257603/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36922452
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