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The impact of screen time and green time on mental health in children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the life of children and adolescents in an unprecedented way. In the present study, we focused on two activities that have been likely affected by mitigation measures: screen time and green time. We investigated how both influenced each other during the pandemic, h...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9121633/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35611352 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2022.100204 |
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author | Camerini, Anne-Linda Albanese, Emiliano Marciano, Laura |
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description | The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the life of children and adolescents in an unprecedented way. In the present study, we focused on two activities that have been likely affected by mitigation measures: screen time and green time. We investigated how both influenced each other during the pandemic, how they affected children’s and adolescents' mental health, and which role socio-demographic characteristics have in predicting screen time, green time, and mental health. We used data collected between autumn 2020 and spring 2021 from 844 participants aged 5 to 19 of a population-based, prospective cohort study in Canton Ticino, Italian-speaking Switzerland. We analyzed the data using an extended version of the Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Model with time-invariant socio-demographic covariates and mental health as outcome. Results showed that, at the between-person level, screen time was a risk factor and green time a protective factor of mental health. However, within-person deviations of screen time and green time during the pandemic did not consistently predict mental health. Furthermore, they did not influence each other over time. Gender, age, perceived economic situation of the family, Body Mass Index and the availability of green space nearby all influenced stable measures of green time and screen time (i.e., random intercepts). Our results highlight the need for targeted actions to promote green time and raise awareness about the detrimental effect of screen time on children’s and adolescents’ mental health. |
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spelling | pubmed-91216332022-05-20 The impact of screen time and green time on mental health in children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic Camerini, Anne-Linda Albanese, Emiliano Marciano, Laura Comput Hum Behav Rep Article The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the life of children and adolescents in an unprecedented way. In the present study, we focused on two activities that have been likely affected by mitigation measures: screen time and green time. We investigated how both influenced each other during the pandemic, how they affected children’s and adolescents' mental health, and which role socio-demographic characteristics have in predicting screen time, green time, and mental health. We used data collected between autumn 2020 and spring 2021 from 844 participants aged 5 to 19 of a population-based, prospective cohort study in Canton Ticino, Italian-speaking Switzerland. We analyzed the data using an extended version of the Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Model with time-invariant socio-demographic covariates and mental health as outcome. Results showed that, at the between-person level, screen time was a risk factor and green time a protective factor of mental health. However, within-person deviations of screen time and green time during the pandemic did not consistently predict mental health. Furthermore, they did not influence each other over time. Gender, age, perceived economic situation of the family, Body Mass Index and the availability of green space nearby all influenced stable measures of green time and screen time (i.e., random intercepts). Our results highlight the need for targeted actions to promote green time and raise awareness about the detrimental effect of screen time on children’s and adolescents’ mental health. The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2022-08 2022-05-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9121633/ /pubmed/35611352 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2022.100204 Text en © 2022 The Authors Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Camerini, Anne-Linda Albanese, Emiliano Marciano, Laura The impact of screen time and green time on mental health in children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title | The impact of screen time and green time on mental health in children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full | The impact of screen time and green time on mental health in children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_fullStr | The impact of screen time and green time on mental health in children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | The impact of screen time and green time on mental health in children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_short | The impact of screen time and green time on mental health in children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_sort | impact of screen time and green time on mental health in children and adolescents during the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9121633/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35611352 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2022.100204 |
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