Longitudinal association between smartphone ownership and depression among schoolchildren under COVID-19 pandemic

Under the COVID-19 pandemic, concerns regarding prolonged screen time and mental health effects in children have increased. We examined the association of depression with smartphone ownership in school children at four time points: September 2019, July 2020, December 2020, and March 2021. The analys...

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Autores principales: Adachi, Masaki, Takahashi, Michio, Shinkawa, Hiroki, Mori, Hiroyuki, Nishimura, Tomoko, Nakamura, Kazuhiko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8588933/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34773141
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00127-021-02196-5
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author Adachi, Masaki
Takahashi, Michio
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Mori, Hiroyuki
Nishimura, Tomoko
Nakamura, Kazuhiko
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description Under the COVID-19 pandemic, concerns regarding prolonged screen time and mental health effects in children have increased. We examined the association of depression with smartphone ownership in school children at four time points: September 2019, July 2020, December 2020, and March 2021. The analysis revealed an interaction between group and time, indicating that depressive symptoms among smartphone owners were significantly more severe than in the other group. These results were clearer for fourth-year students, pointing that smartphone possession at younger ages may be a risk factor for mental health in the new lifestyle caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00127-021-02196-5.
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spelling pubmed-85889332021-11-12 Longitudinal association between smartphone ownership and depression among schoolchildren under COVID-19 pandemic Adachi, Masaki Takahashi, Michio Shinkawa, Hiroki Mori, Hiroyuki Nishimura, Tomoko Nakamura, Kazuhiko Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol Brief Report Under the COVID-19 pandemic, concerns regarding prolonged screen time and mental health effects in children have increased. We examined the association of depression with smartphone ownership in school children at four time points: September 2019, July 2020, December 2020, and March 2021. The analysis revealed an interaction between group and time, indicating that depressive symptoms among smartphone owners were significantly more severe than in the other group. These results were clearer for fourth-year students, pointing that smartphone possession at younger ages may be a risk factor for mental health in the new lifestyle caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00127-021-02196-5. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021-11-12 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8588933/ /pubmed/34773141 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00127-021-02196-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 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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Mori, Hiroyuki
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title Longitudinal association between smartphone ownership and depression among schoolchildren under COVID-19 pandemic
title_full Longitudinal association between smartphone ownership and depression among schoolchildren under COVID-19 pandemic
title_fullStr Longitudinal association between smartphone ownership and depression among schoolchildren under COVID-19 pandemic
title_full_unstemmed Longitudinal association between smartphone ownership and depression among schoolchildren under COVID-19 pandemic
title_short Longitudinal association between smartphone ownership and depression among schoolchildren under COVID-19 pandemic
title_sort longitudinal association between smartphone ownership and depression among schoolchildren under covid-19 pandemic
topic Brief Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8588933/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34773141
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00127-021-02196-5
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