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

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HUSAROVÁ Daniela MADARASOVÁ-GECKOVÁ Andrea BLINKA Lukas ŠEVČÍKOVÁ Anna VAN DIJK Jitse P. REIJNEVELD Sijmen A.

Year of publication 2016
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source BMC Public Health
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Faculty of Social Studies

Citation
Web http://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-016-2804-8
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-2804-8
Field Psychology
Keywords Long-term illness; Asthma; Learning disabilities; Electronic media; Adolescents
Description 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.
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