Observational studyBMC pediatrics2025
Performance on an attention test is positively related to reading but negatively related to watching TV and playing video games in children.
Observational study in BMC pediatrics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02550236 (Prospective Population-based Childhood Cohort Study in the Leipzig Area Investigating Genetic, Environmental, and Metabolic Factors and Their Association With the Development of Civilization Diseases), which is not on this map. Cited by 1 paper.
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Prospective Population-based Childhood Cohort Study in the Leipzig Area Investigating Genetic, Environmental, and Metabolic Factors and Their Association With the Development of Civilization Diseases
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- Sociodemographic correlates of cognitive performance in healthy children and adolescents.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundWhen exploring associations between attention skills and children's media use, most previous studies relied on parental or self-reports of attention performance. In the present study, attention was assessed using a standardized computer test.
methodsThe study was carried out as part of the LIFE Child cohort study conducted in Leipzig, Germany. A total of 1057 children from a younger (3-6.5 years) and an older age group (6.5-11 years) underwent a Continuous Performance Test (CPT). Parents reported on the children's use of electronic media (watching movies/TV shows, playing video games) and reading frequency (listening to parents' reading in the younger age group and autonomous reading in the older age group). Associations between CPT outcomes (omission and commission errors, reaction time variability) and use of different media and reading were assessed by applying linear regression analyses. Child age, sex and family income were included as covariates.
resultsWatching movies/TV shows was significantly associated with a higher rate of errors of commission in the younger age group and with a higher rate of errors of omission in the older age group. Playing video games was associated with a higher rate of errors of omission in the older age group only. Reading, in contrast, was associated with a lower total error rate in the older age group.
conclusionsThe results strengthen the assumption that the frequent use of electronic media is associated with poorer attention skills in children, while frequent reading is associated with better attention performance.
trial registrationClinical trial number NCT02550236 (clinicaltrials.gov, date of registration: 2014-12-15).
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