ArticleChild and adolescent psychiatry and mental health2020
Video gaming addiction and its association with memory, attention and learning skills in Lebanese children.
Article in Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 66 citations in OpenAlex.
- Influencing factors of short-form video addiction among Chinese university students: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Smartphone Addiction Modulates Object-Based Attention.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Characterization of Internet Gaming Addiction among School Children: A Cross-Sectional Study.Clinical practice and epidemiology in mental health : CP & EMH · 2026Article
- Neurobehavioral outcomes in pediatric smartphone users: An observational study among a cohort of school-going children from a cantonment town of West Bengal.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2025Article
- Manifestation of Learner Agency in Primary Education: Goal Setting, Implementation, and Reflection in the Context of Competency-Based Learning.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Typology of media use and its associations with parent and child factors among elementary school children: a latent profile analysis.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Validation of the Farsi version of the video-game addiction scale for children: its associations with social media addiction, internet addiction and executive functions.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Internet Gaming Disorder Among Rural Left-Behind Children in China: A Sociological Qualitative Study.Psychology research and behavior management · 2025Article
- Gaming disorder and problematic caffeine consumption in adolescents: a narrative review and public health framework.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- Sociodemographic Factors Associated with Video Game Addiction in Schoolchildren from the South-Central Region of Chile.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The Relationship between video game addiction and bladder/bowel dysfunction in childrenBiomedica : revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud · 2024Article
- Effects of memory and attention on the association between video game addiction and cognitive/learning skills in children: mediational analysis.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Effects of physical exercise on adolescent short video addiction: A moderated mediation model.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Prevalence and Prediction of Video Gaming Addiction Among Saudi Adolescents, Using the Game Addiction Scale for Adolescents (GASA).Psychology research and behavior management · 2024Article
- Article
- Comparison of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, decision-making, and attention control in individuals with sex addiction and normal people.Journal of education and health promotion · 2024Article
- The Effects of Digital Addiction on Brain Function and Structure of Children and Adolescents: A Scoping Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Relations between Video Game Engagement and Social Development in Children: The Mediating Role of Executive Function and Age-Related Moderation.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Learning for early childhood using the IcanDO platform: Breakthroughs for golden age education in Arabic learning.Education and information technologies · 2023Article
- Effects of Online Game and Short Video Behavior on Academic Delay of Gratification - Mediating Effects of Anxiety, Depression and Retrospective Memory.Psychology research and behavior management · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors at 3 institutions in 5 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundExamining whether any association exists between addiction to video games and cognitive abilities in children could inform ongoing prevention and management of any possible harm. The objective of this study was to investigate the associations between addiction to video games, and memory, attention and learning abilities among a sample of Lebanese school children.
methodsThis cross-sectional study, conducted between January and May 2019, enrolled 566 school children aged between 9 and 13 years. Three private schools were chosen conveniently for this study. Students were randomly chosen from the list given by the school administration. The students' parents are those who responded to the questionnaire.
resultsThe results showed that higher addiction to video gaming salience was significantly associated with worse episodic memory, problem solving, basic reading skills, written expression skills and worse clinical attention. Higher addiction to video gaming tolerance were significantly associated with worse novel problem solving and worse attention. Higher addiction to video gaming withdrawal were significantly associated with worse attention, factual memory, attention, processing speed, visual spatial organization, sustained sequential processing, working memory, novel problem solving and worse written expression skills.
conclusionThe results suggest a correlation between addiction to video games and worse memory, attention, as well as cognitive and academic abilities among school children. Those findings indicate the need for more extensive research, and serve to highlight vital next steps needed in future papers, such as identifying predicting factors that could aid in early detection of video gaming addiction in children.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.