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Validated assessment tools for screen media use: A systematic review.
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- Screen Time, Child Depression, and Anxiety During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JMIR pediatrics and parenting · 2026Review
- Maternal Screen-Related Behaviors, Toddler Screen Use, and Toddler BMI in Mexican American Families: Cross-Sectional Study.JMIR pediatrics and parenting · 2026Article
- Screen Detection from Egocentric Image Streams Leveraging Multi-View Vision Language Model.IEEE transactions on multimedia · 2026Article
- Objective Assessment of Media Screens Effect on Physical Activity in Preschool Children.IEEE access : practical innovations, open solutions · 2026Article
- Measuring screen time among adolescents: test-retest reliability of HBSC questionnaire items across two countries.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Lifestyle patterns and their associations with overweight and obesity among children aged 4-9 years in the United Arab Emirates.The British journal of nutrition · 2025Article
- The feasibility of passively tracking children's TV viewing and mobile device use in naturalistic settings.Behaviour & information technology · 2025Article
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- Will restricting the age of access to social media reduce mental illness in Australian youth?The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry · 2025Review
- From dusk to dawn: examining how adolescents engage with digital media using objective measures of screen time in a repeated measures study.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2025Observational
- Associations of time spent on different types of digital media with self-rated general and mental health in Swedish adolescents.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Measuring attraction to screen devices in early childhood: development of the Affinity-TV and Affinity-Mobile scales.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Article
- Validation studies of the FLASH-TV system to passively measure children's TV viewing.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Longitudinal Use Patterns of Technology Subtypes During the Transition Into Early Adolescence: Results From the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2024Article
- The Effect of Prebedtime Behaviors on Sleep Duration and Quality in Children: Protocol for a Randomized Crossover Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
- Measurement Method Options to Investigate Digital Screen Technology Use by Children and Adolescents: A Narrative Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- The utility of behavioral biometrics in user authentication and demographic characteristic detection: a scoping review.Systematic reviews · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectiveAccurate measurement of adult and child screen media use are needed to robustly assess its impact on health outcomes. Our objective was to systematically review screen media use measurement tools that have been validated against an objective "gold standard" tool.
methodsThe search strategy was initially conducted in Medline Ovid and translated to Embase, Web of Science, PsychInfo and Cochrane. A modified natural language search was conducted in Google Scholar and IEEE. The initial search was conducted in March 2021, and an updated search was conducted in June 2022. Additional studies were included from the references. Studies had to describe the validation of a tool to measure screen media use on participants of any age against a 'gold standard' or comparable objective measure. The COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement INstruments (COSMIN) was used to assess the criterion validity. Four authors reviewed the titles in two rounds and extracted data.
resultsTwenty-nine articles were included in the review. Studies measured TV, computer, mobile device and social media site screen media use through: self or parent report, direct or video observation, computer and mobile device use tracking programs, and through other novel devices such as wearable devices and cameras. Correlations of self or parent report of screen media with the gold standard were lower than correlations of technology-based measures, and video observation with the gold standard. The COSMIN criterion validity ratings ranged from poor to excellent; most of the studies received a global score of fair or poor.
conclusionsTechnology based validated tools that more directly measure screen use are emerging that have been validated against a gold standard for measuring screen use. However, practical, objective measures of diverse types of screen media use that have been tested on diverse populations are needed to better understand the impact of screen media use on the development and physical and mental health of children and adults.
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