| Title: |
TV, computer, tablet and smartphone use and autism spectrum disorder risk in early childhood: a nationally-representative study |
| Authors: |
Melchior, Maria; Barry, Katharine; Cohen, David; Plancoulaine, Sabine; Bernard, Jonathan; Milcent, Karen; Gassama, Malamine; Gomajee, Ramchandar; Charles, Marie-Aline |
| Contributors: |
Institut Pierre Louis d'Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique (iPLESP); Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Sorbonne Université (SU); CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière AP-HP; Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU); Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique (ISIR); Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Statistics; Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE); Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences Singapour (SICS); Agency for science, technology and research Singapore (A*STAR); Etude longitudinale française depuis l'enfance (UMS : Ined-Inserm-EFS) (ELFE); Institut national d'études démographiques (INED)-Établissement Français du Sang La Plaine Saint-Denis (EFS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM); The ELFE cohort is supported by state funding from the ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) within the framework of the “Future Investments” programme (reference: ANR-11-EQPX-0038; ANR-19-COHO-001), as part of the RECONAI platform. This research is further supported by ANR funding under the reference ANR-20-CE36-0001 and an ERC-Consolidator grant (RESEDA, ERC-2020-COG-101001420).; ANR-11-EQPX-0038,RE-CO-NAI,Plateforme de REcherche sur les COhortes d'enfants suivis depuis la NAIssance(2011); ANR-19-COHO-0001,RE-CO-NAI (COHORTES),Resarch platform on cohorts of children followed from birth(2019); ANR-20-CE36-0001,iSCAN,Impact des écrans sur la santé cardiométabolique, l'adiposité et le neurodéveloppement des enfants(2020) |
| Source: |
ISSN: 1471-2458. |
| Publisher Information: |
CCSD; BioMed Central |
| Publication Year: |
2022 |
| Subject Terms: |
Birth cohort study; Autism spectrum disorder; ELFE; Screen media; [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] |
| Description: |
International audience ; Background: Screen media use in early childhood has largely increased in recent years, even more so during the COVID-19 epidemic, and there is much discussion regarding its influence on neurodevelopment, including Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Methods: We examined the relationship between use of TV, computer, tablet and smartphone at age 2 years and risk of ASD assessed in telephone-based questionnaires among 12,950 children participating in the nationally representative ELFE ('Etude Longitudinale Française sur les Enfants') birth cohort study in France. Results: In inverse-probability weighted (IPW) multinomial regression analyses, children's weekly or daily screen media use was associated with an increased likelihood of an intermediate risk of ASD (IPW-controlled OR for weekly use:1.07, 95% CI 1.02-1.12; IPW-controlled OR for daily use:1.05, 95% CI 1.02-1.08) but inversely associated with a high risk (IPW-controlled OR for weekly use: 0.60, 95% CI 0.50-0.73; IPW-controlled OR for daily use: 0.75, 95% CI 0.62-0.91), as ascertained by the M-CHAT. This was confirmed when studying TV as well as computer/tablet exposure separately. Conclusions: Overall, our nationally-representative study conducted among a large sample of 2-year-old children, indicates a complex relationship between screen exposure and ASD risk. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/pmid/35490214; PUBMED: 35490214; PUBMEDCENTRAL: PMC9055369; WOS: 000789054500001 |
| DOI: |
10.1186/s12889-022-13296-5 |
| Availability: |
https://inserm.hal.science/inserm-03693169; https://inserm.hal.science/inserm-03693169v1/document; https://inserm.hal.science/inserm-03693169v1/file/s12889-022-13296-5.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13296-5 |
| Rights: |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ; info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.AF668B71 |
| Database: |
BASE |