ArticlePreventive medicine2023
Screen time and suicidal behaviors among U.S. children 9-11 years old: A prospective cohort study.
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- Screen time, problematic media use, and clinical concerns in the ABCD Study: Differences by sex and race/ethnicity.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- Internet gaming disorder and suicidal behaviors mediated by sleep disturbance: a large-scale school-based study in 135,174 Chinese middle school students.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Article
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- The ABCD and HBCD Studies: Longitudinal Studies to Inform Prevention Science.Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing) · 2024Review
- The impact of screen time and social media on youth self-harm behaviour and suicide: A protocol for a systematic reviews.PloS one · 2024Article
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Abstract
Suicide is a leading cause of death among adolescents. Emerging literature has described relationships between excessive screen time and suicidal behaviors, though findings have been mixed. The objective of this study is to determine the prospective associations between screen time and suicidal behaviors two-years later in a national (U.S.) cohort of 9-11-year-old-children. We analyzed prospective cohort data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study (N = 11,633). Logistic regression analyses were estimated to determine the associations between baseline self-reported screen time (exposure) and suicidal behaviors (outcome) based on the Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (KSADS-5) at two-year-follow-up. Participants reported an average of 4.0 h of total screen time per day at baseline. At two-year-follow-up, 1.38% of the sample reported at least one suicidal behavior. Each additional hour of total screen time was prospectively associated with 1.09 higher odds of suicidal behaviors at 2-year-follow-up (95% CI 1.03-1.14), after adjusting for covariates. For specific screen time modalities, each additional hour of texting (aOR 1.36, 95% CI 1.06-1.74), video chatting (aOR 1.30, 95% CI 1.03-1.65), watching videos (aOR 1.21, 95% CI 1.04-1.39), and playing video games (aOR 1.18, 95% CI 1.01-1.38) was associated with higher odds of subsequent suicidal behaviors. Higher screen time is associated with higher odds of reporting suicidal behaviors at two-year-follow-up. Future research should seek to identify how specific screen time experiences may influence suicidal behaviors.
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